Tod Browning was well acquainted with freak shows. Before his distinguished career in cinema, Browning started out in the circus. The spirit of Phineas Taylor Barnum, who had died a few years earlier, still marked everyone working in the business, which the ringmaster had transformed through his famous publicity stunts. His museum of horrors still sat in the center of Manhattan, where he exhibited without restraint his troupe of monsters and savages.
Freaks, La monstreuse parade
Photographies de la collection Enrico Praloran, Zurich
Curators : Sam Stourdzé et Anne Lacoste
From september 21st 2012 to January 6th, 2013
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