images that haunt us
I didn’t want to accept my wretched role. But now it’s too damn lonely. We try out attitudes and find them all worthless. The forces are all too strong. The forces… the horrible forces. You need to watch your step among all the ghosts and memories.
Tystnaden (The Silence), Ingmar Bergman, 1963.
Harris & Ewing :: Three on a rock, 1922. [George Harris and Martha Ewing’s photo studio].
Washington DC, 1919. / src Library of Congress via
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“Margaret Severn, The Benda Mask Girl, will begin a tour of the Proctor vaudeville theatres tomorrow. The mask dances are probably rather new to the variety circuit.” (press caption). July 16, 1922. Uncredited photographer. / src eBay
Alexander Milne :: Dancer Margaret Severn posing for The Greenwich Follies. March 1st, 1935. Published in Vanity Fair. / src Condé Nast online store
Karl Andreyevich Fischer** :: Russian stage actress Maria Germanova as The Witch, in Konstantin Stanislavski’s production of Maurice Maeterlinck’s play ‘The Blue Bird’, at the Moscow Arts Theatre, 1908. / source: The New York Public Library
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** Photographer’s name on verso of the postcard: “К. Фишер Mockba”
