The Uncanny

There is something strange and unsettling about these images. I do not know: and maybe it is the fact that I do not know that amuses me: they need to be collected: like symbols that draw together opposite conditions. Worth considering... Freud suggested the Uncanny was frequently to be found in the banal, normal: again this is a symbolic drawing together of normal and ... uncanny...
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Juju suit, from 1912. Meinhof, Carl. Afrikanische Religionen: Hamburgische Vorträge.
Bes-image | New Kingdom | The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Bes figure Period: New Kingdom Dynasty: Dynasty 18 Date: ca. 1550–1295 B.C. Geography: From Egypt, Northern Upper Egypt, Abydos, Cemetery D,Tomb D14 E, Egypt Exploration Fund 1900.
A strange pharaoh - This statue of the pre-dynastic period may be the first known depiction of a pharaoh. At the time of Nagada (the name of a discovery at the site of Upper Egypt), around 4000 BC. This statue was found in Gebelein, south of Luxor.
American war correspondent Lee Miller takes a bath in Hitler's Munich apartment on the day the owner committed suicide. Miller was a correspondent for "Vogue» and worked with photographer David Sherman, who took this picture, April 30, 1945. Lee and Sherman went to Munich together with the 45th Division. They found an abandoned building at the undamaged Prinzenregentplatz, 27, went in, and they realized that it was Hitler's personal quarters. They stayed there for three days.