Category: 1930s

Parachute Jump, 1931

Willi Ruge :: Seconds before Landing, from the Series ‘I Photograph Myself during a Parachute Jump’,1931 | src MoMA
Willi Ruge :: Seconds before Landing, from the Series ‘I Photograph Myself during a Parachute Jump’,1931 | src MoMA
Willi Ruge :: Photo of Myself at the Moment of My Jump. From the series I Photograph Myself during a Parachute Jump, 1931. Gelatin silver print. | MoMA
Willi Ruge :: Photo of Myself at the Moment of My Jump. From the series I Photograph Myself during a Parachute Jump, 1931. Gelatin silver print. | MoMA
Willi Ruge :: With my head hanging before the parachute opened, from the Series ‘I Photograph Myself during a Parachute Jump’,1931 | src MoMA
Ruge, Willi. “Ich fotografiere mich beim Absturz mit dem Fallschirm.” Berliner Illustrirte Zeitung 40, no. 21 (May 24, 1931): 844 (as Während des Sturzes, and Die Empfindung der Geschwindigkeit und des Gefahrvollen hatte ich faßt nicht).
“I’m photographing myself during a parachute jump” Berliner Illustrirte Zeitung 40, nº 21 (May 24, 1931): 844 (During the fall, and I hardly had the feeling of speed and danger). | src MoMA
Garland E. Cain :: Autoportrait en parachute. États-Unis, vers 1930. Tirage argentique. | src Lumière des roses – 16e Livraison

Indian dancer Nyota Inyoka

Boris Lipnitzki :: Indian dancer Nyota Inyoka (1896-1971) in a ballet, Paris, ca. 1930. | source paris en images, now roger viollet via ourpastdreams

Subida a la Catedral, 1937-38

Kati Horna :: Subida a la Catedral, Guerra Civil española, Barcelona, España, 1937. | src MHG via l’œil de la photographie
Kati Horna :: Portrait, 1937. | src Michael Hoppen Gallery online exhibit via l’œil de la photographie
Kati Horna :: Subida a la catedral [Ascending to the Cathedral], Spanish Civil War, Barcelona, 1938. Gelatin silver print (photomontage). Archivo Privado de Fotografía y Gráfica Kati y José Horna. | src Kati Horna at Jeu de Paume via l’œil de la photographie

Imre Kinszki · insect wings

Imre Kinszki (1901-1945) ~ Wing of a lacewing 1930s. Vintage silver print | src Lempertz 

Greatly influenced by the modernism of photography and its protagonists such as Brassai and László Moholy-Nagy Kinszki was an important spokesman and a committed representative of the ‘Neues Sehen’ [New Vision] movement in Hungary during the 1920s. He was particularly interested in macro photography for which he developed a special camera, the ‘Kinsecta’. Despite good contacts to countrymen abroad Kinszki didn’t succeed in leaving the country and he fell a victim of the Nazi regime due to his Jewish origin. (cf. also Károly Kincses (ed.), Photographes. Made in Hungary, Milan 1998, pp. 167)

Imre Kinszki (1901-1945) ~ Gnat’s wing, early 1930s. Vintage gelatin silver print | src Phillips