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William Seabrook

20 works

Browse 20 works by William Seabrook. Every work here links to the museum that holds it, and anyone can save it at up to 2,500 pixels on the long side without paying.

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Black and white print of a bearded man in a wide-brimmed hat with a pipe, captioned 'Polynice was smarter than anybody.'

Polynice was smarter than anybody

1929

Black and white print of two men crouched in a ring holding fighting roosters, with a crowd of grimacing faces in the dark ab

When the combat begins, the two owners remain in the ring

1929

Black and white print of masked figures with raised arms, a crouching ape, and a horned goat in a dark scene.

They were staring fixedly as entranced mediums stare into crystal globes

1929

Black and white print of two dancers with arms raised, a seated drummer, and a row of laughing faces above.

She began a dance in rhythm with his

1929

Maman Celie, high priestess of the mysteries

1929

Charcoal-style portrait of a man in a tricorn hat and embroidered collar, captioned about Antoine Simone and black sorcery.

Antoine Simone, president of the republic, was active in black sorcery

1929

Black and white print of distorted, grimacing faces and figures crowded together, with a caption reading 'danced their dark S

Blood-maddened, sex-maddened, God-maddened…danced their dark Saturnalia

1929

White-line print of a kneeling nude woman with raised arms beneath dark clouds, with a caption below the image.

And as she sang, she was a daughter doomed to die

1929

Black and white woodcut of elegant figures at a table in a dark salon, surrounded by eerie masked faces and ghostly forms.

Strange tales are told of voodoo in the boudoir and salon

1929

Black and white print of a stylized male face with furrowed brow and bold features, captioned 'Dort Dessiles, who was a papal

Dort Dessiles, who was a papaloi

1929

Woodcut of a skeletal rider on a horse above a line of pale, gaunt figures in dark robes against black hills.

No one dared to stop them, for they were corpses walking in the sunlight

1929

Black and white print of a standing woman in a robe beside three drummers and a tall staff with hanging ornaments.

The ‘Mamaloi’ in a scarlet robe

1929

Black-and-white print of a woman with a staff leading nine stacked faces, with crossed bones and a rider on a distant hill.

Croyance, leading the nine dead men and women

1929

Black and white print of two drummers playing Rada drums beside a large open-mouthed mask, with a dancer behind them.

At the left of the altar were the ‘Rada’ drums

1929

Dark ink drawing of a horned seated mother figure nursing a child while another figure watches beside her.

Dark mother of mysteries

1929

Stylized drawing of a woman with dark bobbed hair, pearl necklace and elongated face against a halo-like background.

Face mat gold like a Byzantine Polychrome

1929

Stylized frontal drawing of a woman's bust with large curly hair, reproduced on a book page with a caption below.

He had to whip her once or twice a year

1929

But marked for death by the voodoo curse, they died

1929

Drawing of two elongated, shiny faces, one grinning broadly, with a caption below reading Louis' face glowed with a light.

Louis’ face glowed with a light that was not always heavenly

1929

Black and white print of a horned goat among bones, a man in a wide-brimmed hat with a cross, and raised-arm silhouettes.

Here are deep matters, not easily to be dismissed by crying blasphemy

1929