This blog by mikl-em (I played Sugarchurch) features Stuff about carnival sideshows, the 1800's to 1930’s, Vaudeville, clowns, freaks, silent film, or whatever else seems to fit.
Creepy, though not graphically disturbing, photograph from a 1929 slaughterhouse “Aux abattoirs de la Villette” by Eli Lotar (from “Documents”) via foxesinbreeches
“Documents” was a Surrealist art magazine edited by Georges Bataille. Published in Paris from 1929 through 1930, it ran for 15 issues, each of which contained a wide range of original writing and photographs.
“For every accessible reality, in each being, you have to find the place of sacrifice, the wound. A being can only be touched at the point where it yields: a woman under her dress, a god on the throat of the animal sacrificed.”
— Georges Bataille, Le Coupable, 1944
Creepy, though not graphically disturbing, photograph from a 1929 slaughterhouse “Aux abattoirs de la Villette” by Eli...
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