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Tattoo Artist Who Turns Self Harm Scars into Art

a tattoo artist in Brisbane gives tattoos for free to those with self harm scars

Tags: art, self harm, skin, tattoos

2 people sit for a portrait, a white man with a pigeon chest and a black woman below him

Tags: human curiosity, new objectivity, portrait

2 nude women lounge on a bed of grass and flowers

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a young girl sleeps in a white bed

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4 muscular men hold up a pedestal

Tags: muscle, sculpture, strength, titans

red ribbons that look like blood vessels or umbilical cords entwine a human form

Tags: blood, human, life

an advertisement for Julia Pastrana, a hairy woman who will be at a stall in Regent's Square

Tags: advertisement, human curiosities, hypertrichosis, Julia Pastrana

Helmet used in an early MRI machine

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British military-issue x-ray tube

Tags: medical equipment, technology, wartime, x-ray

Bust with phrenological markings

Tags: bust, criminology, phrenology, quack science