Harry Patton, old time cowboy with the Three Block outfit, fiddling before an open fireplace, 1908. Photo by: Erwin E. Smith
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Phineas Gage, the railroad worker who had a metre-long iron rod propelled straight through his head at high speed in an explosion. Gage famously survived this horrific accident, but underwent dramatic personality changes afterwards. Photograph taken in 1848.
Gage is said to have undergone major personality changes following his accident, becoming quick-tempered and foul-mouthed and behaving sexually inappropriately. In a subsequent report, published 20 years after the accident, Harlow described the changes thus:
His contractors, who regarded him as the most efficient and capable foreman in their employ previous to his injury, considered the change in his mind so marked that they could not give him his place again. He is fitful, irreverent, indulging at times in the grossest profanity (which was not previously his custom), manifesting but little deference for his fellows, impatient of restraint of advice when it conflicts with his desires, at times pertinaciously obstinent, yet capricious and vacillating, devising many plans of future operation, which are no sooner arranged than they are abandoned in turn for others appearing more feasible. In this regard, his mind was radically changed, so decidedly that his friends and acquaintances said he was “no longer Gage”.
Apparently Phineas Gage spent some time living in Chile in the 1850s, after his life-altering accident. He made a living driving stagecoaches from Santiago to Valaparaíso and vice versa.
Lightning strikes the Eiffel Tower, France, 1902. Camille Flammarion
C3PO takes a break on the set of ‘The Empire Strikes Back’, 1979.
Andy Warhol with Edie Sedgwick (actress/model) and Chuck Wein (promoter and manager of entertainment acts whose celebrity stemmed from his five-year association with Andy Warhol and from his discovery of Edie Sedgwick who became Warhol Superstar of 1965)
Photographer: Burt Glinn
New York, USA, 1965.
(Source: jonmwessel.wordpress.com)
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High stress environment.
Robert Capa, 1947
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