Hewhoreplaces - FREAKS ONLY

“Humanity’s self-alienation has reached such a degree that it can experience its own destruction as an aesthetic pleasure of the first order.”

— Walter Benjamin, “The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction,“ 1936

Richard Petty's Plymouth Superbird crash at the Darlington Raceway, May 1970

Jake Gyllenhaal and Heath Ledger Brokeback Mountain (2005) dir. Ang Lee

'2003: zumanity' in cirque du soleil: 25 years of costumes - ronald clément, pierre desmarais + michel dalpé (2009)

'the trunk of a flayed body of a man' by charles landseer, 1815 in the art of medicine: over 2000 years of images and imagination - julie anderson, emm barnes + emma shackleton (2011)

Obsessed

Francis Bacon for Vogue John Deakin, 1962

Lake Shore Drive, 2011, AP

Marlene Dietrich takes a bow, 1962