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OVNI, 1970’s.
Ostrich reads newspaper of caretaker, 1951.
Oscar Graubner - Margaret Bourke-White perches on an eagle head gargoyle at the top of the Chrysler Building and focuses a camera, New York, 1935.
Nils-Erik Larson - Shrek Hut
Nils-Erik Larson - Old goodies
vieuxmetiers: New York City window washers, 1958.
Monique Jacot - Beersheba, Israël, 1961.
Mitzi Gaynor
Joe Munroe - Twenty-two students cramming into a telephone booth to try and establish a stacking record, St. Mary’s College, Moraga, California, 1959.
Metro Goldwyn Mayer (MGM) Trade Mark.
John C. Higgins - Man in Bottle, ca. 1888.
Louis Coulon vers 1900’s, avec sa barbe de plus de 3 mètres dans laquelle il transporte un drôle de passager.
Lipstick Testing, 1950’s.
Inge Morath - Long Island, Springs, New York, 1970.
Ilse Bing - Place de la Concorde, Paris, 1947.
Hair perming apparatus, Germany, 1929.
Family portrait
George Konig - Vera Bland chooses the right colour eyeballs for a wax head of Cardinal Bernard Griffin, Archbishop of Westminster in the workshop of Madame Tussaud’s, London, June 1946.
Fiddle Oak
Evening Standard - Two brown bear cubs born at Whipsnade Zoo, 1970.
Eleanor Antin - 100 boots, 1971.
Buster Keaton
monstersmayhem: The Brain from Planet Arous . ‘57
Evening Standard - The legs and high heels of a member of the cast of ’Tropical Paradise’, a revue at the Pigalle, tower above a very small baby monkey, circa 1970.
Erwin Blumenfeld – Self-Portrait, 1958.
En équilibre sur la Tour Eiffel, Paris, 1940’s.
Elliott Erwitt - Valdes Peninsula, Argentina, 2001.
Elliott Erwitt - Snoopy Balloon
Elliott Erwitt - Paris, 1989.
Elliott Erwitt - New York City, 1946.
Elliott Erwitt - Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade, New York City, 1988.
Elliott Erwitt - Long Island, East Hampton, New York, 1996.
Elliott Erwitt - Amagansett, New York, 1969.
Elliott Erwitt - Punta del Este, Uruguay, 1990.
Eliza Blasina, The Devil’s Auction, 1890.
Echafaudage sur Notre-Dame, Paris, 1952.
Douglas Miller - A policeman at Buckingham Palace holds the gate open so that a duck and her ducklings, from nearby St James’s Park, can leave the palace forecourt, 4th May 1964.
Distracted man drops drinks on fielder, 1959.
Buster Keaton et Viola Dana.
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Chris Ware - Wax caster, Alec Williams making a model of Ivan The Terrible’s head at Gem’s (Wax Models) Ltd, in the Portobello Road area of west London. 1st May 1965.
André the giant (André René Roussimoff)
Alison Scarpulla http://www.flickr.com/photos/aliscarpulla/
Alfred Hitchcock
Alfred Gescheidt, 1950.
Alfred Eisenstaedt - Le Grand Hôtel, St Moritz, 1931.
After parcel post service was introduced in 1913, at least two children were sent by the service. With stamps attached to their clothing, the children rode with railway and city carriers to their destination.
Adventures in parking, 1951.
Addie Darling & big mixer, 1960.
Buster Keaton & Luke the Dog - The Scarecrow, 1920’s.
Bernard Tussaud, grandson of Swiss modeller Madame Tussaud, holds two wax heads, one of Haile Selassie, Emperor of Abyssinia (Ethiopia) and the other of Italian dictator Benito Mussolini. September 1935.
Absinthe - Conférence apache
A scene from Pina Bausch’s Ballet, Die Keuschheitslegende (The Legend of Virginity), Wuppertal, by Helmut Newton, 1983.
A lip plate
A l’île des Cygnes à Paris près de la Tour Eiffel, le saut de la mort par Peyrusson, dans la Seine (plongeur s’élançant dans le vide sur un vélo), 1912.
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