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The Ethereal Beauty of Drowned Flowers by  Lisa Sorgini

Photo by  Charles H. Traub

When Heather Whitten posted an image of her husband, Thomas, holding their young son, Fox, while he had salmonella poisoning in November 2014, she wasn’t exactly trying to inspire total strangers to have a conniption. The photo, which Whitten has posted more than once on Facebook, showed Thomas and Fox both naked in the shower. So, naturally, people started freaking out and reported the photo to Facebook, where it was eventually taken down. In another post that was also deleted, Whitten explained that the image is not remotely sexual and was never intended to be exploitative. Rather, it was meant to capture a moving moment between father and child. “Thomas had spent hours in the shower with [Fox], trying to keep his fever down and letting the vomit and diarrhea rinse off of them both as it came,” Whitten wrote. “As I sat in the shower with the two of them I was just overwhelmed with the scene in front of me. This man. This husband and partner and father. He was so patient and so loving and so strong with our tiny son in his lap.“

Photos by Marton Perlaki

Photos by Márton Perlaki

From Kill City by Ash Thayer, published by powerHouse Books. Girl Reading in Doorway of Serenity House, 1997

Photos by Andrei Tarkovsky: Polaroid, 1980 (from the book Instant Light: Tarkovsky Polaroids from Thames and Hudson)

are u sure? like are u really sure? have u seen me? u did not think this through

Herbert List: Tunisia, Hammamet. Arab Boy with Eremurus. 1935. © Herbert List/Magnum Photos

The Ethereal Beauty of Drowned Flowers by  Lisa Sorgini

If an artwork could ever give you a chill, it’s a sculpture by Laurent Pernot. His piece titled Self Portrait Face to a Winter Canvas features a life-sized replica of the Paris-based artist as he stands in front of a framed snowy scene. While that might sound innocuous, the artwork has a strange and surreal twist—the wintery mix is not just contained in the picture. Faux snow coats the figure and wood frame, as icicles dangle from the tip of his nose and hat.

Larry Clark

Photo by Walter Iooss Jr.