Eve Southern by Tiffany Studios, 1929

No greater desire exists than a wounded person's need for another wound.

Georges Bataille

Arnold Genthe • Diane Hubert, 1920

Billie Dove in The Man and the Moment (1929) Dir. George Fitzmaurice

And the strange man from that evening stepped on the countess's heart like a marble statue. Right on her heart! But it did not burst. She let the figure do as it pleased. It came and went and came over her as it pleased.

Dr. Mabuse, der Spieler by Norbert Jacques, Chapter 10

Gertrude Welcker DR. MABUSE, DER SPIELER 1922 | dir. Fritz Lang

Jaroslav Fabinger (Bohemian, 1899–1942)

Untitled, 1930's

Mary Nolan

Zsuzsi Ujj.