© Don Jim, One Girl, Muscle Beach, c. mid 1950’s. Vintage gelatin silver print, 8 7/8 x 12 3/8 inches.

Pictured here is a scene from the women’s competition at Muscle Beach in Santa Monica, CA. This image will be on display with the Barry Singer Gallery at this year’s AIPAD show from March 18th-21st. For more details about the AIPAD Photography Show New York, click here. For more work from Don Jim and the Barry Singer Gallery, click here.

© Lori Nix, “Mastodon”, 2009, Courtesy of ClampArt, New York City

Clampart’s exhibition ‘The Museum of Unnatural History” opens tonight (February 25th) with a display of photographs and paintings that illustrate the unnatural elements in a natural history museum.

This image, by Lori Nix, will be on view at the ClampArt gallery through April 10th.

© Bahar Yurukoglu.

This image is from Bahar’s ‘Museification’ series. To see more images please click here.

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© Francesco Lastrucci, Taoyuan, Taiwan.

Chewing the addictive mixture of areca nut and betel leaf is a custom which dates back thousands of years from South Asia to the Pacific. In Taiwan, the traders started to hire beautiful young women in sexy outfits, called betel nut beauties, in order to attract customers.