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Execution in Bangkok
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Habits of looking change from century to century. A 19th-century traveller had absolutely no qualms about purchasing this gruesome picture and taking it home to paste in his travel album. It is a bizarre souvenir of a cruel violence. Nowadays we can hardly bear to look at this scene; three decapitated heads impaled on pikes, the bodies sprawled in the background. And what about the photographer? He earned a living taking such pictures.
Title: Execution in Bangkok
Description:
Habits of looking change from century to century.
A 19th-century traveller had absolutely no qualms about purchasing this gruesome picture and taking it home to paste in his travel album.
It is a bizarre souvenir of a cruel violence.
Nowadays we can hardly bear to look at this scene; three decapitated heads impaled on pikes, the bodies sprawled in the background.
And what about the photographer? He earned a living taking such pictures.