
Open air exercise, ca. 1936

images that haunt us



Gerhard Riebicke ::
Gymnasium Nudes, advertising photograph for the film ‘Wege zu Kraft
und Schönheit’, 1925.
Vintage gelatin silver print.
Along with Helmy Hurt, Gerhard
Riebicke was the set photographer for the UFA film ’Wege zu Kraft
und Schönheit’ (‘The Way to Strength
and Health: a film of modern body culture’, 1925),
directed by Wilhelm Prager and Nicolaus Kaufmann (casting, among others, Jack
Dempsey and Leni Riefenstahl). / src: liveaucioneers
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Dave Heath :: Metropolitan Museum of art, NYC, 1958. Vintage gelatin silver print. / src: laurence miller gallery
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Thurston Hopkins :: ‘Sleeping Beauties’. Participants in the Holiday Girl Beauty Competition at the Royal Pavilion, Brighton, August 1953
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Nina Leen :: Sunroof, Atlantic City, 1948 (for Life magazine) / via habitantes
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Ruth Harriet Louise :: Joan Crawford in the set of Dream of Love, 1928 / via
silent–era
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Marlene Dietrich as Shangai Lily in
Shanghai Express, directed by Josef von Sternberg, 1932 / via
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Susanne Rosenthal (or stage name: Suse Rosen), Stuttgart Ballet, Germany
, 1928-32
|
unknown photographer
| source: The Met