I look like a sad Muslim woman after fighting with my Guru Chaman. We went on a vist to the graveyard to show Ayesha the ducks

To my left is my guru Chaman, and to my right is my guru's eunuch brother Dugi

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Chaman invited us to Faridabad, to impress Dayanita with his new house

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For Ayesha's third birthday, we hired a live band and dressed Ayesha like an English girl

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I try so hard to please Ayesha, to make jokes. To win her back, I even bought a computer, but..

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NEWS 52 : －Look here, kaiserlick[sic]......, shall we soon be done with these gallantries to the women?..

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Very good! very good! you are behaving perfectly! we are going to take you to Beaulieu, to Poissy, to Bicêtre, I am pleased with you

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All are happy at the big party. Never before had eunuchs seen so big a party as the one for Ayesha

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Celebrrrrrrated Painting Jury: composed of a Composer, an Astronomer, a Mathematician, several Architects and a Chemist. － The Chemist (yawning)... in... the... fi... nal... an...alysis..., and because on the painting Jury there is no Painter! What if we went to dinner

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The Blue-stockings 20: Oh woe!... to have dreamed... a husband

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NEWS 175: Tell me, Mister Colimard, is it true that now the government's going to force all journalists to wear a uniform and that they'll make [them] pay security to all subscribers?..

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Caricaturana 38: Lively! Lively! Bertrand, got to push the merchandise onto the market, beat the big drum, make a show, attract the sucker's attention! Lively! Lively! We'll attack ourselves in the newspapers, write to ourselves, reply to ourselves, answer ourselves, insult ourselves, and above all, advertise ourselves... －do you think the public won't have the key to these shams? －Leave off, everybody has the key to them except the public

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Album des Charges du Jour: EUNUCHS DISCHARGED BY THE BEY TUNIS.[sic] －What's going to become of us?... here we are[,] dismissed!... －There's nothing for it but to become coachmen in Constantinople!..

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SKETCHES OF THE HUNT 5: －Well!... Are we going to continue our hunting, despite the vile weathe?... －No! absolutely not..., it's raining... the game fear the rain as much as we do..., they can't fail to come and shelter in this cottage, and we're going to bag lots of them!..

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Caricaturana 82: Write: Sir, In reply to the letter which you did me the honour of writing, I regret to tell you that the shares of the European Society of Incombustible Boot Polish have been fully subscribed to. However, I have registered your request, and will have the honour of giving you immediate notice in the event of a new issue. I am etc. R.Macaire, Director... Print “withdraw 300,000[francs] and flood France with new shares... －What, we haven't disposed of a single share, we haven't had a single request, we haven't got a sou and you... －Bertrand! You're as thick as a plank... Do what I say and you'll see

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LIFE'S HAPPY DAYS 84: RECEPTION OF A FREE-MASON: We know from a reliable source that you are here among us only to unveil our secrets to outsiders... your guilty schemes will be frustrated... I have just received order to plunge this dagger into your breast!..

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Where are we going, where are we going?...We are walking on a volcano, the gulf of revolutions is open beneath our footsteps...the carriage of state has been halted by the flood of all these bad passions

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LIFE'S HAPPY DAYS 9: FULL DRESS DAY: I think like this I look a little... slightly Old Guard!..

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The Salon of 1842: Charmed to see himself exhibited, the original seen here takes his wife to the Salon, and places her in front of his own image, in order to rejoice in the crowd's judgment. －Look, say some, it's Chinese Commissioner Lin! －No, says others, don't you see that it's a bit of natural history! － It is, joins in a gentleman with a catalogue, it is the portrait of Mr. D..., insurance broker. －Well, with a bonce like that he needn't insure it, because no one would steal it. (His lady wife leaves, extremely flattered.)

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The Salon of 1842: Charmed to see himself exhibited, the original seen here takes his wife to the Salon, and places her in front of his own image, in order to rejoice in the crowd's judgment. －Look, say some, it's Chinese Commissioner Lin! －No, says others, don't you see that it's a bit of natural history! － It is, joins in a gentleman with a catalogue, it is the portrait of Mr. D..., insurance broker. －Well, with a bonce like that he needn't insure it, because no one would steal it. (His lady wife leaves, extremely flattered.)

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JOURNEY TO CHINA 2: THE PASSPORT. The foreigner who visits China is submitted to an indispensable formality; he receives a slip of paper on which is written the age he wants to indicate, the profession he says he pursues and the place where it pleases him to appoint his birth; all that followed by a description of particulars which applies to everybody, after which, against a consideration of two francs, the Chinese government is deemed to lend him succour and assistance for one year

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NEWS 200: A VISIT TO THE CONVICT-PRISON IN NAPLES: Mr.Gladstone－ And what do you call this man? he doesn't look like a villain. The Gaolor－ Don't you believe any of it, on the contrary,he's a demagogue, an old constitutional minister of 1848 called Carlo Poërio. In his inexhaustible clemency the best and most worthy of kings ordered that we chain him to an assassin, so that he might return to the good. He'd have been completely lost if we'd left him with another demagogue

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BOHEMIANS OF PARIS 17: THE WORKER FOR A LABOUR EXCHANGE: Employed at fifteen sous a day, as a secret bill-poster, what a fate! They're asking for a replacement, by Jove, as are my hat and my clothes, and above all my last night's supper's asking for a replacement!

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IN CHINA 13: －Here, look at that case..., it contains the American envoys who are going to Peking!... －You'd think that that carriage contained curious animals... －To be sure! if they are curious..., too bad for them, because they won't see much of the country they're travelling through!..

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IN CHINA 13: －Here, look at that case..., it contains the American envoys who are going to Peking!... －You'd think that that carriage contained curious animals... －To be sure! if they are curious..., too bad for them, because they won't see much of the country they're travelling through!..

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In December 1998, the depression started and has refused to leave me ever since

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Asakusa quarter (Taito Ward)

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To bless the newborn child, I am dancing in front of the house

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Wakamatsu, Kitakyushu

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Photograph of the Bombing in Nagasaki A-9-8

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People gathering at an Etiopian Orthodox church. The man carrying a gun is possibily a militiaman

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Fuyunofukusouhakakumakitowaragutsugahyoujundatta．imahasoregaōbātonagagutsunikawaritsutsuaru．

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Boy tied to lamppost and playing in gutter

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1.5km South of Ground Zero, Nagasaki

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Village maidens, Hiraka District

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1km South of Ground Zero, Nagasaki

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When I went to give blessings, I loved to talk to the women and to hear their joys and their sorrows

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Suddenly I felt better. Maybe it was the magic of the old woman, or the gods had pity on me

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The "Crawlers"

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Mother in Echigo

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Homeless Mother and Child, Tokyo

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Merībatsubarano『herupu mī』

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Street children smoking (Ueno)

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KAWAI Gyokudo

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Self Portrait

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