Francisco de Goya – Saint Francis Borgia at the Deathbed of an Impenitent, detail. 1788
Tag: death
this is actually the scariest thing ive seen in a long time
WTH
its pretty accurate
ASSEMBLY, 1999, oil on hardboard, 4×5 feet
© 2008 Blanka Dvorak
The Taint
This is a photo of a young child in Sudan starving to death. The photographer, Kevin Carter, was told not to touch or assist children for fear of transmitting diseases. As Kevin prepared to take the photo, a vulture landed behind the girl. Careful to not disturb the bird, he approached the scene very slowly and took a few photos from roughly 10 meters before chasing the vulture away. What Kevin didn’t know was that he had just shot one of the most controversial photographs in the history of photojournalism. Kevin was faced with many questions about whether the girl had survived and why he did not help her and only used her to take a photograph. It became known that the girl mustered enough strength to walk away but her ultimate fate is a mystery. His photo won the Pulitzer prize in 1994 and Kevin committed suicide three months later, leaving the following note behind:
“I’m really, really sorry. The pain of life overrides the joy to the point that joy does not exist… I am depressed… without phone… money for rent … money for child support… money for debts… money!!!… I am haunted by the vivid memories of killings and corpses and anger and pain… of starving or wounded children, of trigger-happy madmen, often police, of killer executioners… I have gone to join Ken [recently deceased colleague Ken Oosterbroek] if I am that lucky”.
1920s nude with skeleton and veil by franz fiedler
The Dybbuk, (found it Jewish folklore) is supposedly the spirit of a dead sinner who attaches itself to the body of a living person. It causes extreme mental illness, and is often known to pester and torture the victim.
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