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Nude beside tree, 1915

Williamina Parrish :: Nude woman standing beside tree. Signed Williamina Parrish (1915). | src SLPL, Grace and Williamina Parrish Photograph Collection

Pantomime Pacifier Dance, 1976

Renate Bertlmann :: Zärtliche Pantomimen. Pantomime Schnuller-Tanz (Tender Pantomimes. Pantomime Pacifier-Dance), 1976. | src Sotheby’s | Renate Bertlmann began using rubber teats, rubber baby bottle nipples and condoms as substitutions for genitalia. These were also grafted onto wearable items, such as the mask and the crown or wig of udder-like nipples seen here.

Kallmus · Benda · Nudes

Dora Kallmus - Arthur Benda :: Nu drapé de dos (Mlle Rhomadje), ca. 1925-1935. Vintage gelatin silver print. Photographer's signature in the negative. Stamp "Copyright d'Ora - Wien, 1 - Arthur Benda" | src Ader
Dora Kallmus – Arthur Benda :: Nu drapé de dos (Mlle Rhomadje), ca. 1925-1935. Vintage gelatin silver print. Photographer’s signature in the negative. Stamp “Copyright d’Ora – Wien, 1 – Arthur Benda” | src Ader
Dora Kallmus - Arthur Benda :: Nu au bandeau (Mlle Engstfeld), ca. 1925-1935. | src Ader
Dora Kallmus – Arthur Benda :: Nu au bandeau (Mlle Engstfeld), ca. 1925-1935. | src Ader
Dora Kallmus - Arthur Benda :: Nu de dos, ca. 1925-1935. | src Ader
Dora Kallmus – Arthur Benda :: Nu de dos, ca. 1925-1935. | src Ader
Dora Kallmus - Arthur Benda :: Nu aux ballerines, ca. 1925-1935. | src Ader
Dora Kallmus – Arthur Benda :: Nu aux ballerines, ca. 1925-1935. | src Ader

Dancer with pole, 1920s

Lotte Eckener (Atelier Alexander Binder) :: Tänzerin mit Stange, 1920s. | src Coll. Dorothea Cremer-Schacht via Fotografie am Bodensee

“Lotte Eckener was born in Friedrichshafen in 1906 to the famous airship pioneer Hugo Eckener. In 1924 she moved to Munich to study at the Bavarian State School of Photography. Her first professional stop was the renowned Atelier Alexander Binder on Kurfürstendamm, where the great and rich of the golden 20s came and went. She portrayed famous stars like Josef von Sternberg, Helene Thimig and Anny Ondra and took photographs for advertising orders.” quoted from source