Dora Maar, Dream-like, 1935
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Adrien Tournachon, 'Ecstatic Prayer'. Fig. 76 from ‘Analyses Electro-Physiologique de l’Expression des Passions’, Paris, 1862.
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Renée Jeanne Falconetti in Carl Th. Dreyer's The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928)
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A Fakir / ascetic with a metal grid welded around his neck so that he can never lie down; India, late 1800s
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Igbo masquerade dancers. Nri-Awka region, Nigeria. Early 1900s. Photo by Northcote Thomas
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Arthur James Iles (1870-1943). Maori Chieftan, ca.1890
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Arthur James Iles (1870-1943) - Maori women, New Zealand
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Again: The Ku Klux Klan at a carnival in Canon City, Colorado ,1925
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Jordi Halsman, From Going Elsewhere
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François Kollar, Swimming Lesson, 1930
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'Atom Smasher' at the University of Chicago, 1948
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Harold Edgerton, First Instant of an Atomic Test Detonation in Nevada, 1952
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Philip Jones Griffiths, Watch belonging to one of the victims stopped at 8.15, the exact moment of the explosion, Hiroshima, August 6, 1945
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You post many compelling pictures. In your writing, do you start from an image you've been carrying around in your brain?
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Yes, sometimes.
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