[John Dillinger's Feet, Chicago Morgue]
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This press photo of John Dillinger, the celebrity gangster from Chicago shot down at age 31, morbidly embodies the twentieth-century's obsession with fame and hunger for physical contact with media personae. As the Depression era's most successful bank robber, Dillinger had become a folk hero for his brash, cocky manner and disregard for authority. This unflinching view of Dillinger laid out on a slab in the Chicago morgue not only bares the facts but ironically recalls Mantegna's The Lamentation Over the Dead Christ (ca. 1490).
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![[John Dillinger's Feet, Chicago Morgue], Unknown (American), Gelatin silver print](/Rodan/dist/svg/rolling-0.9s-30px.svg)
