This obscure desire for beauty

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Max Dupain. Super-Imposed Woman and Night Cityscape, 1937

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Dovima, Erwin Blumenfeld, 1949

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Portrait of Sofia Nikolaevna Kramskoy (in hat), 1863, Ivan Kramskoi

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RIP Rex Reed

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Sisters, Dir. Brian De Palma, 1972

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Haydée Politoff in: Count Dracula’s Great Love, Dir. Javier Aguirre, 1973

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Betty Grable in "The Dolly Sisters", Dir. Irving Cummings, 1945

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Limite (1931), Dir. Mário Peixoto

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Sarah Moon

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Doris Dowling and Alan Ladd in The Blue Dahlia (1946, Dir. George Marshall)

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Slime Molds photographed by Barry Web.

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"The Zacchini family has been catapulting family members with a real gunpowder charge since the 1920s. One of the Zacchini girls, Duina, is shot from a mortar into a net 100 feet away on January 13, 1943." (Via Reddit)

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Somewhere between Constructivism, Expressionism, and Futurism: Gosplan Garage, Moscow. Architecture: Konstantin Melnikov with V. I. Kurochkin, 1936.

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Isabella Rossellini as Dorothy Vallens behind the scenes of 'Blue Velvet' (1986).