Category: 1920s

Spanish women attired in 1924

Jules Gervais Courtellemont :: Portrait of a woman dressed in clothing typical of Lagartera in Toledo, Spain, August 1924. Autochrome
Jules Gervais Courtellemont :: Portrait of a woman dressed in clothing typical of Lagartera in Toledo, Spain, August 1924. Autochrome. | src National Geographic
Jules Gervais Courtellemont :: Portrait of a woman dressed in clothing typical of Lagartera in Toledo, Spain, August 1924. Autochrome. | src National Geographic
Jules Gervais Courtellemont :: A woman dressed for a bullfight stands in a doorway, August 1924. Autochrome. | src Luminous Lint LL/50049
Jules Gervais Courtellemont :: A woman dressed for a bullfight stands in a doorway, August 1924. Autochrome. | src Luminous Lint LL/50049

Autochrome of girl with poppies

A 12-year-old girl poses outside her house in Cyprus. This color photo was one of 66 that accompanied a July 1928 article on the Mediterranean island. Photographer: Maynard Owen Williams
Maynard Owen Williams :: A 12-year-old girl poses outside her house in Cyprus. This color photo was one of 66 that accompanied a July 1928 article on the Mediterranean island. | src Nat Geo image collection
A 12-year-old girl poses outside her house in Cyprus. This color photo was one of 66 that accompanied a July 1928 article on the Mediterranean island. Photographer: Maynard Owen Williams. | src Nat Geo image collection
A 12-year-old girl poses outside her house in Cyprus. This color photo was one of 66 that accompanied a July 1928 article on the Mediterranean island. Photographer: Maynard Owen Williams. | src Nat Geo image collection

Femme vue de dos, 1928

Jules Gervais-Courtellemont :: A woman in Brittany, France, leans against a stone wall in this early 1923. Autochrome. This image was featured in a 2010 exhibition of National Geographic's autochromes. | Nat Geo
Jules Gervais-Courtellemont :: A woman in Brittany, France, leans against a stone wall in this early 1923. Autochrome. This image was featured in a 2010 exhibition of National Geographic's autochromes. | Nat Geo
Jules Gervais-Courtellemont :: A woman in Brittany, France, leans against a stone wall in this early 1923. Autochrome. This image was featured in a 2010 exhibition of National Geographic’s autochromes. | Nat Geo

Nude dancer at Herion school

Paul Jsenfels :: Dancer, Stuttgart Dance School. [Ida Herion dance school]. Photoengraving; printed 1927. | src liveauctioneers
Paul Jsenfels :: Dancer, Stuttgart Dance School. [Ida Herion dance school]. Photoengraving; printed 1927. | src liveauctioneers
Paul Jsenfels :: Dancer, Stuttgart Dance School. [Ida Herion dance school]. Photoengraving; printed 1927. | src liveauctioneers

Yellow roses by Jan Z. Wlodek

Jan Zdzisław Włodek :: Marechal Niel roses in the greenhouse at ul. Pędzichów, Boczna 5, 1925-1926. Autochrome. [full size] | src Fundacja im. Zofii i Jana Włodków
Jan Zdzisław Włodek :: Róże Marechal Niel w cieplarni przy ul. Pędzichów Boczna 5, 1925-1926. Autochrome. | src Fundacja im. Zofii i Jana Włodkó
Jan Zdzisław Włodek :: Marechal Niel roses in the greenhouse at ul. Pędzichów, Boczna 5, 1925-1926. Autochrome. [closer detail] | src Fundacja im. Zofii i Jana Włodków
Jan Zdzisław Włodek :: Róże Marechal Niel w cieplarni przy ul. Pędzichów Boczna 5, 1925-1926. Autochrome. | src Fundacja im. Zofii i Jana Włodków
Jan Zdzisław Włodek :: Róże Marechal Niel w cieplarni przy ul. Pędzichów Boczna 5, 1925-1926. Autochrome. [detail] | src Fundacja im. Zofii i Jana Włodków
Jan Zdzisław Włodek :: Róże Marechal Niel w cieplarni przy ul. Pędzichów Boczna 5, 1925-1926. Autochrome. | src Fundacja im. Zofii i Jana Włodków [detail]
Jan Zdzisław Włodek :: Marechal Niel roses in the greenhouse at ul. Pędzichów, Boczna 5, 1925-1926. Autochrome. [full size] | src Fundacja im. Zofii i Jana Włodków

Nude dancer by Jsenfels

Paul Jsenfels :: Dancer, Stuttgart Dance School, ca. 1927. Photoengraving printed in 1927. | src liveauctioneers
Paul Jsenfels :: Dancer, Stuttgart Dance School, ca. 1927. Photoengraving printed in 1927. | src liveauctioneers
Paul Jsenfels :: Dancer, Stuttgart Dance School, ca. 1927. Photoengraving printed in 1927. | src liveauctioneers

Jsenfels’ Getanzte Harmonien

Gelöste Linien • Dissolved Lines „ . . . only the plants can do something similar without being able to change its point of view…” (Rudolf von Laban) „ . . . nur die Pflanze vermag Ähnliches, ohne aher ihren Standpunkt wechseln zu können… “ (Rudolf von Laban) (Aus Isenfels ,,Getanzte Harmonien“, Verlag Dieck & Co., Stuttgart) Uhu August, 1927
Paul Jsenfels :: Dancer, Stuttgart Dance School, 1927. Photoengraving. | src liveauctioneers
Paul Jsenfels :: Dancer (nude, bending backwards), Stuttgart Dance School, 1927. Photoengraving. | src liveauctioneers
Gelöste Linien • Dissolved Lines „ . . . only the plants can do something similar without being able to change its point of view…” (Rudolf von Laban) „ . . . nur die Pflanze vermag Ähnliches, ohne aher ihren Standpunkt wechseln zu können… “ (Rudolf von Laban) (Aus Isenfels ,,Getanzte Harmonien“, Verlag Dieck & Co., Stuttgart) Uhu August, 1927
Gelöste Linien • Dissolved Lines
(Aus Isenfels ,,Getanzte Harmonien“, Verlag Dieck & Co., Stuttgart) Uhu August, 1927
Gelöste Linien • Dissolved Lines „ . . . only the plants can do something similar without being able to change its point of view…” (Rudolf von Laban) „ . . . nur die Pflanze vermag Ähnliches, ohne aher ihren Standpunkt wechseln zu können… “ (Rudolf von Laban) (Aus Isenfels ,,Getanzte Harmonien“, Verlag Dieck & Co., Stuttgart) Uhu August, 1927
Gelöste Linien • Dissolved Lines
„ . . . only the plants can do something similar without being able to change its point of view…” (Rudolf von Laban)
„ . . . nur die Pflanze vermag Ähnliches, ohne aher ihren Standpunkt wechseln zu können… “ (Rudolf von Laban)
(Aus Isenfels ,,Getanzte Harmonien“, Verlag Dieck & Co., Stuttgart) Uhu August, 1927

Leaping dancer by Delight Weston

Irma Delight Weston :: Dance Liftoff, 1921. Bromide print. | src Photoseed
Irma Delight Weston :: Dance Liftoff, 1921. Bromide print. | src Photoseed
Irma Delight Weston :: Dance Liftoff, 1921. Bromide print. | src Photoseed
Irma Delight Weston :: Dance Liftoff, 1921. Bromide print. | src Photoseed
Delight Weston :: Airborne dancer, 1921. Bromide print.
Irma Delight Weston :: Airborne dancer, 1921. Bromide print. | src Photoseed
Delight Weston :: Airborne dancer, 1921. Bromide print.
Irma Delight Weston :: Airborne dancer, 1921. Bromide print. | src Photoseed

These pictorial studies of a female dancer leaping are believed to have been taken at the former Ruth Doing Camp for Rhythmics in New York state’s Adirondack mountains. In the 1920’s and 30’s, photographer Delight Weston lived with camp founders Ruth Doing (1881-1966) and Gail Gardner (1878-1949) in New York City, along with other women artists, in a building at 139 W. 56th St. near Carnegie Hall. 

Established in 1916, the summer camp was first located on the shores of Upper Chateaugay lake near Lyon Mountain until 1925, when it moved to Upper St. Regis Lake in Paul Smiths, New York. Renamed the Gardner-Doing Camp after this time, it was coeducational: besides regular summer camp activities, it specialized in the “rhythmic” style of dancing popularized by famed dancer Isadora Duncan, whom Ruth Doing was a former student of. Doing’s life partner, Michigan native Gail Gardner, had earlier made a name for herself as an accomplished and world-traveling opera singer. [quoted from Photoseed]

Irma Delight Weston :: Leaping dancer, 1921. Bromide print. | src Photoseed
Irma Delight Weston :: Leaping dancer, 1921. Bromide print. | src Photoseed
Delight Weston :: Leaping dancer, 1921. Bromide print.
Irma Delight Weston :: Leaping dancer, 1921. Bromide print. | src Photoseed
Delight Weston :: Outstretched arms. Rhythmic dance study, 1921. Bromide print. | src Photoseed
Delight Weston :: Outstretched arms. Rhythmic dance study, 1921. Bromide print. | src Photoseed
Delight Weston :: Outstretched arms. Rhythmic dance study, 1921. Bromide print. | src Photoseed
Delight Weston :: Outstretched arms. Rhythmic dance study, 1921. Bromide print. | src Photoseed

Two dancers by Delight Weston

Delight Weston :: Rhythmic Dancing Study, 1921. Bromide print. | src Photoseed
Delight Weston :: Rhythmic Dancing Study, 1921. Bromide print. |src Photoseed
Delight Weston :: Rhythmic Dancing Study, 1921. Bromide print. | src Photoseed
Delight Weston :: Rhythmic Dancing Study, 1921. Bromide print. |src Photoseed
Delight Weston :: Rhythmic Dancing Study, 1921. Bromide print. | src Photoseed
Irma Delight Weston :: Rhythmic Dancing Study, 1921. Bromide print. | src Photoseed
Irma Delight Weston :: Rhythmic Dancing Study, 1921. Bromide print. | src Photoseed
Irma Delight Weston :: Rhythmic Dancing Study, 1921. Bromide print. | src Photoseed
Irma Delight Weston :: Rhythmic Dancing Study, 1921. Bromide print. | src Photoseed

These pictorial studies of two female dancers in motion are believed to have been taken at the former Ruth Doing Camp for Rhythmics in New York state’s Adirondack mountains. In the 1920’s and 30’s, photographer Delight Weston lived with camp founders Ruth Doing (1881-1966) and Gail Gardner (1878-1949) in New York City, along with other women artists, in a building at 139 W. 56th St. near Carnegie Hall. 

Established in 1916, the summer camp was first located on the shores of Upper Chateaugay lake near Lyon Mountain until 1925, when it moved to Upper St. Regis Lake in Paul Smiths, New York. Renamed the Gardner-Doing Camp after this time, it was coeducational: besides regular summer camp activities, it specialized in the “rhythmic” style of dancing popularized by famed dancer Isadora Duncan, whom Ruth Doing was a former student of. Doing’s life partner, Michigan native Gail Gardner, had earlier made a name for herself as an accomplished and world-traveling opera singer. [quoted from Photoseed]

Delight Weston :: Rhythmic Dancing Study, 1921. Bromide print. | src Photoseed
Delight Weston :: Rhythmic Dancing Study, 1921. Bromide print. | src Photoseed
Delight Weston :: Rhythmic Dancing Study, 1921. Bromide print. | src Photoseed
Delight Weston :: Rhythmic Dancing Study, 1921. Bromide print. | src Photoseed