by Ivan Bilibin
by Ivan Bilibin
(Source: deviantfemale, via wildloveway)
(Source: pavlovspuppy, via carefulspaceastronaut)
Bill Hicks (via riverbones)
André Kertész 1894-1985
Group of women in the street, Marburg, Austria, 12 July 1917
Charles Augustin Lhermitte 1881-1945
Street and Gothic cathedral, 1913
liquidnight:Husband Lies Next To Dead Wife, Ambrotype, circa 1856
This husband has decorated his wife’s body with flowers. Then he lay down with her on her deathbed in order to be close to her for the last time, as they were recorded for posterity. Here the man acknowledges his wife is dead and simply stares lovingly at her.
From Sleeping Beauty II - Grief, Bereavement and the Family in Memorial Photography by Stanley B. Burns, M.D.