Female War Correspondent Dickey Chapelle

Dickey Chapelle receiving last rites after being hit by shrapnel.
Image by Henri Huet.

According to this story, her last words were "I guess it was bound to happen."

More on her HERE.

Also see previous posts on LEE MILLER.

See more in the series Sleep of the Beloved by Paul Schneggenburger

Joel-Peter Witkin v. NIN reprise

While I'm posting about NIN, here's the music video for Closer based loosely on the photographs of Joel-Peter Witkin:

Nine Inch Nails - Closer (Director's Cut)

www.youtube.com

Music video by Nine Inch Nails performing Closer. (C) 1989 Interscope Records

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  So someone made this video compilation of Witkin's images to make things right. Or something. 
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Paolo Ventura, Automaton #06, 2010

Part of a current exhibition at the Italian Academy, Columbia University

19th- and 20th-Century Post-Mortem Photography

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