Untitled (Eyes) by Dennis Farber

Source? (via Flüsterspiel)

EDIT: Barry & Dwayne, Danville, VA by Emmet Gowin, 1970 (thanks, liquidnight!)

Protest the Pope demo, London, September 18, 2010

Picture © Wurzeltod (more here)

(via amoelbarroco)

Spitalfields Treasures, May 20, 2010: 

It’s obvious that the doll and/or the chaps in the painting will try to kill me each and every night from now on, but the hell with it - it was all worth it! :) 

Photo © Wurzeltod, 2010

… and no, you’re not the only one… I can feel it too… 

Nigredo from Opus Magnum Atomium by Koen Hauser, 2002

liquidnight:

Dorothea Lange - Children of Oklahoma drought refugees on highway near Bakersfield, California, June 1935. Family of six; no shelter, no food, no money and almost no gasoline. The child has bone tuberculosis.

[via Shorpy]

The visual contextualism is overpowering!

Children, 1920 (via VintagePhoto)

nitescence:

in-circles: oblii in corso: umberto e margherita (via ioffas)

Awww.. she looks like a young PJ Harvey.  ♥

liquidnight:

Spectral children communing with an owlet at the Swiss Benedictine Abbey of Einsiedeln.

[From the Klosterarchiv Einsiedeln]

Hey, I never got to sit on a rock with an autistic owlet sporting a very Aryan looking haircut when we were in Einsiedeln with our school. Not. Fair.

Hang on… they’re “communing” with it? Does that mean it serves the purpose of the Holy Host?! o_O

liquidnight:

School dentist examining a student in the classroom, The Netherlands, 1935

[via the Nationaal Archief]

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH… Village of the Damned child on the right. Make it go away! AAAAAAAAAH! o_O

Portrait of Edouard and Marie-Loise Pailleron by John Singer Sargent, 1881

The Daughters of Edward Darley Boit by John Singer Sargent, oil on canvas, 1882

Crusty punk family Mother and children living in a field on U.S. Route 70 near the Tennessee river by Carl Mydans, 1936