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| Photo Essays by Jan Sochor |
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| Photo Essays by Jan Sochor |
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| David Shrigley |
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| Darvaz, Uzbekistan: While drilling for oil, an entire drilling platform disappeared into an underground cavern filled with poisonous gas. That was 35 years ago. It’s still burning today. (Like Centralia with a ceiling light, I suppose.) |
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 On 25 July 1865, charwoman Sophia Bishop was asked to lay out the body of James Barry. During 46 years as a British Army doctor, Barry had served in garrisons across the empire, making a name as a zealous reformer who improved the health of soldiers and civilians alike. What Bishop now claimed to have discovered made Barry one of the most talked-about doctors in history. Dr Barry, Bishop pronounced, was “a perfect female". But was he really a she? And if so, who was she and how had she kept her secret for so long? [ read more here ]
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On August 23rd, 1912, in St. Landry Parish, Lousiana, three-year old Bobby Dunbar went missing in the swamp. His disappearance triggered a nationwide search. Eight months later, his parents were notified that their boy had been found in the company of one William Cantwell Walters. Mr. Walters claimed the boy was the son of Julia Anderson. Julia Anderson backed his claim. The Dunbars, despite their initial hesitation, identified the boy as their son. Mr. Walters was convicted of kidnapping, a conviction that was overturned on appeal. Hear the story of Bobby Dunbar and how it took almost a century to learn the truth of his tale. I know more than a few of my readers are on dial-up, and as such, large files take a long time to download. But I also know that you trust me and you trust that I bring the musecrack. This is worth the wait. This, my gentle readers, is the purest of the pure. From one of my favourite programs of all time, This American Life: The Ghost Of Bobby Dunbar (click through to download 27mb mp3) |
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| This is the same mine featured in Musecrack’s Ghosts In Ice. Also, previously on Musecrack, Fire & Water. |
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| More Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii, photographer to Czar Nicholas II. |
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| Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii, photographer to Czar Nicholas II, travelled all over the great empire of Russia. The Library of Congress has published his amazing collection. Previously featured on Musecrack. |
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| MiraRuido |
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| August 31, 1923. “Girls dressed as adults, posing with cigarettes.” National Photo Company Collection glass negative. |
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| Transfiguration Church, 1714 Kizhi Island, Russia |
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“Red Payphones” by Kevin B. |
Tungurahua, Ecuador, 2006 |
| Top10 Red Photos by Wired Readers |
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| “Based in the Russian city of Archangelsk, ex-gangster Nikolai Sutyagin originally intended the building to contain two floors but couldn’t help himself when he realised there was nothing to stop him adding more on top.” |
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| Eric Freitas describes himself as “an artist who ambitiously dove into the dying realm of clockmaking to execute an idea, and show a slice of a world I wish existed- a dark, decaying hyper mechanistic world where gears are grown, machines have souls, and even something as logical and precise as a clock can be compromised by ungoverned subconscious thought.” Artwork for sale on etsy.com |
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| Imagine a tunnel more than ten storeys underground, a hundred years old, bricklined, wet, and completely inaccessible save by descending through a narrow slit in its ceiling thirty feet above the floor, and then returning up the same rope you came down. |
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| Now imagine that this tunnel flows into Niagara Falls, emerging behind the pummeling curtain of water that nearly everyone in North America journeys to see at some point in their lives. |
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| The Vanishing Point is an urban exploration site that visited the abandoned tunnels of the Tailrace, underneath Niagara Falls. |
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| The Guido Mocafico: Nature Morte exhibition–a collaboration between Bernheimer Fine Art Photography and Hamiltons Gallery, London–focuses on photographs inspired by the aesthetics of Old Masters. [ed. emphasis mine] |
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| The Road of Knives |
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| Desiree Palmen |
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