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Wilhelm von Gloeden, 1901

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Young Jean-Pierre Léaud looking bored and annoyed at a dinner party in Cannes with directors François Truffaut and Jean Cocteau, (1959).

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Among The Worlds 

Ph. by Evgeniya Gor

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What is new, then, to the nineteenth century is not the doll's association with death, but with children. As children began playing with dolls, the doll's association with death and funerary practices became a common aspect of children's play. Miriam Formanek-Brunell argues that doll funerals came fully into vogue in the late-nineteenth century, as young women and girls followed Queen Victoria's lead in mourning. Parents could purchase mourning attire for their daughters' dolls and fathers constructed doll-sized coffins for miniature burials. According to Formanek-Brunell, the presence and production of mourning dresses and coffins for dolls suggests that "parents encouraged funeral ceremonies meant to properly sanctify the 'bodies' and protect the 'souls' of those poor, deceased dolls."

Brianna Beehler, from her essay “Charlotte Brontë's Paper Dolls”

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Klassenverhältnisse [Danièle Huillet, Jean-Marie Straub, 1984], based on Franz Kafka’s unfinished novel, Der Verschollene (Amerika)

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“Parlor Ornament”. Postcard from my collection, 1906.

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Suehiro Maruo, Saint Sebastian

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Photographer: Matu Burgos Buiatti

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Marie de Reignier by Pierre Louÿs, Paris, 𝟣𝟪𝟫𝟩