creepy portraits

>>2766207
Bump

>>2766207
Often times in olden days photographs were taken with deceased relatives dressed up to look like they were still alive, as a way to remember them. I guess somebody somewhere down the line decided that taking pictures of people while they were still living was a bit easier

>>2766207
Fucking Russians

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Every Portrait Tells a Lie...

Every portrait tells a story and that story usually involves some kind of lie.

Here’s one: I am lined up in a tiny faded snapshot from the 1960s in front of a Christmas tree with my brother. Side by side in our pajamas, he is smiling and I am squinting into the lens. The tree looms large and promising behind us.

I remember those picture moments so well — the feeling of being posed and staged, of being complicit in the making of a mostly false vignette. My brother was mean to me, and I didn’t like standing by him and smiling. Seconds before the shutter clicked, he probably said or did something nasty. The father who stood framing the picture was a stern, remote presence in our lives. This interaction between kids, dad and camera was as close as anything came to family intimacy and I knew, even at a young age, that we were participating in a history that was manufactured....Z end

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Iron White Man, a performer in Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show, by Gertrude Käsebier

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...yikes

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>>2768288
Hey, most of these make nice wallpapers.
Not hq but still creepy:
imgur put_a_dot_here com/a/tSKpD

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loving the dead aspect of this thread

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...seriously

>>2766877
"It was good while it lasted"

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>>2768476
...so was mother Teresa

>>2768476
as a teen jimmy was a influence in pop culture and such, Gary Glitter id sing his songs...

>>2766569
I don't think this is a russian clothing
and i doubt that they had photo cameras back then

>>2768806
That's what they want you to think

>>2768482
Never liked him, just something about him was off. Turns out I was right.

>>2766569
That's something only the brits and the yanks have ever done.

bap

Threads like these keep me on 4chan. As for the teenage wank/fap so so...we need to revive this site or it goes and, sadly, fapsters must go.

>>2768451
>>2766873
>>2768449

more please...

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>>2774579
one of my favourites just 4u

>>2766859

> .gif

I'm onto your trickery

>>2768478
She was a right cunt.

>>2766207
As a dad who spends his days with an awesome 2-year-old daughter, these are heartbreaking. And with high mortality rates, this was all-too-common.

>>2776311
Agreed. Really hits home when you have your own kids.

>>2775835
did they fell off an eleventor chaft?

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>>2776281
dat scar he must of been a snitch

Me and my and my other self because I was ith me and my other was my self when I thought about me again >>2774174

>>2777274
no, down it

>>2781171
mob killings apparently a convenient place to dump body's in the city, these two only discover after they started to decompose.

>>2766556
To take a photograph back then you had to be still for several minutes. This was the only way to photograph kids. :)

So far, not a single portrait in this thread.

>>2784437
now its 26th in the reply count, booty league cheer's

>>2784393
If you can't stand still, you may end up with a double nose. >>2768451
That was the danger of early science in those times.

>>2775839
Early photoshop.
I guess he ate less people than he said.

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>>2784437
Everyone has the right to be stupid on occasion, but Comrade Macdonald abuses the privilege.

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>>2774579
General paralysis of the insane, also known as GPI, was usually caused by syphilis.

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01 Jan 1934 --- Dr. Margaret Mead, Assistant Curator of Ethnology at the American Museum of Natural History, displays some of the trophy heads that she brought back with her from New Guinea

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>>2766207

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>>2787047
...bro