Images

Another amazing image in the series The Art of War – he’s got a lot of those old propaganda posters. They’re incredible.

Also, y’know – I have looked at this image probably, oh, 30 times now … and I still can’t figure it out. But I can’t stop looking at it either.

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7 Responses to Images

  1. DBW says:

    I think J. Edgar Hoover and Shirley Temple might have been joking around, as in–he was “locking” her up. It is bizarre, though.

  2. miker says:

    Bizarre is a pretty mild description for that one! DBW is probably right about Hoover ostensibly locking her up, but it’s still a VERY strange image. I love the phrase “moppet-bondage” in the comments on that site…

  3. red says:

    I didn’t even know it was Shirley Temple at first – she’s wearing this kind of dowdy housedress – and she’s budding on the edge of womanhood – and the whole thing is totally bizarre.

    And also hysterical!

  4. miker says:

    It is hilarious, when you think about it. J. Edgar Hoover has Shirley Temple in bondage on what looks like a farmhouse lawn somewhere on the plains of Kansas.

    With the deep shadows, I never would have guessed who the girl was…

  5. Tom Sutpen says:

    It’s a weird’un, no doubt. There’s a lot of relatively prosaic publicity shots of the late FBI Director and Temple (I was even planning on using one for that series until I came across it), but I’m pretty certain this isn’t one of them; more likely something shot during one of Hoover’s visits out west (for all we know the photographer was Clyde Tolson).

    The two were relatively close, believe it or not; maintaining a correspondence that lasted from the late 30s to the end of Hoover’s life .

    Temple always did have a thing for Fascists.

  6. red says:

    I had no idea they were buds. That explains a bit this bizarre photo – it doesn’t seem QUITE so random.

    Like – Hoover – please let Shirley out of that cage, mkay? But then you see the SMILE on Shirley’s face and you think: So … er … Shirley Temple likes being caged?

    WTF??

  7. Hank says:

    Tom, thanks for the info.
    I too had puzzled over that pic a few times.

    Regards, Hank

    ps Off topic, Red, thx for the pointer a few days ago to bibigreycat. A very cool site.

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