9/28/12





1550 portrait of Hungarian nobleman 
Gregor Baci

Impaled through the head with a lance. 

(Collection of Archduke Ferdinand II of Austria)



9/27/12




Cesare Lombrosso Museum of Criminal Anthropology
Italy


9/26/12




The Spirit Of Our Times, 1921
Raoul Hausmann


”The most memorable of all Dada sculptures…It illustrates Hausmann’s own remark that the ordinary German ‘has no more capabilities than those which chance has glued on the outside of his skull; his brains remain empty.’ And so this…simpering coiffeur’s dummy carries an array of knobs and numbers and even a tape-measure for making judgements. It is a vapid statistic, ‘an O without a figure,’ offering as mordant a commentary on bureaucracy as Charlie Chaplin’s sliding dance through the cogs of the Machine in Modern Times did on industrial capitalism.”
- from The Shock Of The New, Robert Hughes





9/22/12






Eczema of the cornea and conjuctiva on both sides, 
with eczema of the hairy scalp,nose, and mouth 
(Haab)


9/20/12





Paul McCarthy








Jeff Goldblum fiberglass transition head for
The Fly (1986)
Special effects by Chris Walas



9/18/12





cover to
Vampire Horror Stories 
"Funeral Meal"
April, 1975



9/17/12





Hypertrichiasis (Üppiger Haarwuchs)
















Mona Leo
Lillian F. Schwartz 
1986






Portrait of a Young Woman (detail)
Petrus Christus
 Netherlandish, c. 1470



9/16/12




De Glazen Mensch -1935


9/14/12






The Incredibly Strange Creatures 
Who Stopped Living 
and 
Became Mixed-Up Zombies
 (1964)


9/12/12





A Demonstration of the Nerves of the Human Body
Joseph Swan, 1834 


9/11/12






Newly born child.
 Suffocation by portion of the membranes.
Atlas of Legal Medicine


9/10/12






A Picture of Good Health

Scans made by Stacie Rife 
From her Grandmother's Medical Book
Published in 1906.




9/9/12




"It... It's WORSE than it was BEFORE!"


After months of undergoing plastic surgery, to repair his face after an accident, Blake Edmonds had at last got a face he was happy with!  But then came a new disaster...A helicopter he was in, crashed, once again he was trapped in flames...and his face received severe burns...

Cover detail
"Death Wish" from Tiger comic book, Aug 1982


9/8/12





Smallpox lesions on face of 15 year old boy - wax model
Maker: William Gottheil
1917


9/7/12





Hijo de Solar



9/6/12




Poster for Beyond the Valley of the Dolls
by Autumn Whitehurst







9/4/12






Publié par Marieaunet Libellés 
Nina Leen
1943 



9/3/12




Tsunukwalahl
Edward S. Curtis, 1914




9/2/12




Leon Harmon
"The Recognition of Faces" 
Scientific American-1973



9/1/12




Ruby Keeler 's head in
Dames (1934)