Ali Mae 101

tonguedepressors:

BibliOdyssey: Beechey’s Voyage

Pteropus Pselaphon

Plate by George Brettingham Sowerby I, 1839

fuckyeahblackwork:

Backpiece by Tomas Tomas, Into You, London, UK.

tonguedepressors:

Albert Arthur Allen

sutured-infection:

Scleritis, from Richard Greeff’s Atlas of external diseases of the eye, 1914

tonguedepressors:

Photograph by Sergei Vasiliev

Russian Criminal Tattoo

1991. Strict Regime Corrective Labour Colony No.40 
Kungur, Perm Region.

“The dagger through the neck shows that the prisoner committed murder while in prison, and that he is available to ‘hire’ for further murders. The bells on the feet indicate that he served his time in full (‘to the bell’), the manacles on the ankles mean that the sentences were over five years. ‘Ring’ tattoos on the fingers show the status of the criminal when the rest of his body is covered. The ‘thieves’ stars’ on the knees carry the symbolic meaning ‘I will not kneel before the police’.”

billyjane:

Assia [masked]  by Dora Maar

ca. 1934

from: “Les vies de Dora Maar - Bataille, Picasso et les surréalistes”, translation of: Christian-Martin Diebold, “Dora Maar: with and without Picasso” , 2000

tonguedepressors:

Peter Aurisch

tonguedepressors:

Mike Brodie

#5126

2007

tonguedepressors:

Jim Skull

(Marieaunet)