11/28/12


Richard Loeb

along with Nathan Leopold, murdered 14-years-old Robert "Bobby" Franks in 1924 and were sentenced to life imprisonment.  The duo were motivated to murder Franks by their desire to commit a perfect crime. Once apprehended, Leopold and Loeb retained Clarence Darrow as counsel for the defense. Darrow’s summation in their trial is noted for its influential criticism of capital punishment and retributive, as opposed to rehabilitative, penal systems.  Leopold and Loeb have been the inspiration for several works in film, theater, and fiction, such as the 1929 play Rope by Patrick Hamilton and Alfred Hitchcock's 1948 film of the same name. - Wikipedia



11/27/12




Actress Sylvia Sidney's face
used as a guide for beauty, 1934




Head of a man with a severe disease affecting his face and scalp. 
Watercolour by Christopher D' Alton, 1872





11/24/12



Removal of epithelioma by plastic surgery.



11/23/12




Head of a man with a severe disease affecting his face.
 Watercolour by Christopher D' Alton



11/19/12





The superficial lymph circulation of the face



11/17/12





Nuhn, Anton
  Surgical-anatomical plates (Division 1)-
 Illustrations of the surgical anatomy of the head and neck including Mannheim, 1846(detail)



11/16/12



Anatomical atlas of the human body- natural size, location and connection
MI Weber 1930's



11/15/12




Early makeup design by Dick Smith





11/14/12



Head of mummy of parapoh Amenhotep III
 G. Elliot Smith, 1912




11/13/12


Navajo man wearing mask of Ganaskidi,
 god of harvests, plenty, and of mists.
Edward Curtis, ca.1905





11/12/12







The mounted head of a wild boar
 killed in the Cherokee National Forest.
 Date- 5/9/1941



11/10/12



Injuries and diseases of the jaws 
 The Jacksonian prize essay
 of the Royal College of Surgeons of England, 1867 
(3rd edition,1884) 
by Christopher Heath





11/9/12





World War I soildiers' face casts 
by Anna Coleman Ladd
 in her RedCross "Studio for Portrait-Masks", 1918 

 In late 1917, in Paris, Ladd founded the American Red Cross "Studio for Portrait-Masks" to provide cosmetic masks to be worn by men who had been badly disfigured in World War I...Soldiers would come to Ladd's studio to have a cast made of their face and their features sculpted onto clay or plasticine. This form was then used to construct the prosthetic piece from extremely thin galvanized copper. The metal was painted to resemble the recipient's skin, and the prosthesis was donned with strings or eyeglasses for retention much like the prosthetics created in Francis Derwent Wood's "Tin Noses Shop" -Wikipedia




11/8/12





Herbert List  
Trepanation, 1944



11/7/12





Head of the assassin Picard, 
photographed after his execution in 1862
- Charles Desavary (1837-1885)








Mask of the Octopus Hunter
Edward S. Curtis, 1914



11/6/12




Al Jolson
The Jazz Singer (1927)



11/5/12





Photograph of Lt Stacey, RND, 
annotated by Harold Gillies
 to show stages in the operative procedures.







George Kimmel
 1910-1915



11/4/12




Embalmed head, Peru
Crania Americana, 1839 
Samuel George Morton,M.D.



11/3/12




 'Taflen zir Orientierung an der Gehirnoberflaeche
 des lebenden Menschen...'
by Albert Adamkiewwicz 
(printed in 1894, in Vienna)