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shared by Lawrence Hrubes on 21 Jan 18 - No Cached

The tattoo stretched across the man's chest. It said "Do Not Resuscitate." His signature was tattooed at the end. "We were shocked," remembers Holt. "We didn't know what to do." The tattoo, and the hospital's decision about what it required of them, has set off a conversation among doctors and medical ethicists around the country about how to express one's end-of-life wishes effectively, and how policymakers can make it easier.
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shared by markfrankel18 on 19 Feb 15 - No Cached

Writing on the body is as old as time. But perhaps because it was adopted by popular culture first – every sailor had a tattoo – it hasn’t been classed as art
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shared by markfrankel18 on 04 Dec 17 - No Cached

shared by Lawrence Hrubes on 18 May 16 - No Cached

Female impersonators, midgets, hermaphrodites, tattooed (all over) men, an albino sword swallower, a human pincushion, a Jewish giant: “Characters in a Fairy Tale for Grown Ups” is the way Diane Arbus once described her subjects—“people who appear like metaphors somewhere further out than we do,” she also said, “invented by belief.”
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She needed to get closer, physically and emotionally. So she asked permission, got to know people, listened to their stories; some relationships went on for years.
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enrolled in a course with the photographer Lisette Model, who recalled that her main task was urging her nerve-racked student to overcome the fear that photographing her fairy-tale characters was “evil.” In fact, Arbus never entirely lost her qualms about the role she played in other people’s often painfully damaged lives.
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