Category: 1940s

Lilliput comparisons, 1940-47

(top) Ladies of Fashion, ‘Lilliput’ comparison from August 1940 issue and (bottom) ‘Dancers’, from March 1947 issue.
Lilliput Pocket Omnibus, a magazine by Stefan Lorant. | src Flickr

On the beach at Fire Island, NY

Pa Ja Ma Group :: Paul Cadmus (1904-1999), Jared French (1905-1987), and Margaret Hoening French (1889-1973). Photograph depicting Cadmus and Margaret French on the beach at Fire Island, New York with French laying in the sand and Cadmus straddled above her. Photographed by Jared French. Silver gelatin print. | src Revere Auctions at Bidsquare

On a balcony in Charleston

Pa Ja Ma Group :: Paul Cadmus (1904-1999), Jared French (1905-1987), and Margaret Hoening French (1889-1973). Photograph titled “Margaret French and Paul Cadmus, Charleston”, depicting Cadmus and Margaret French on a balcony in Charleston, SC. Photographed by Jared French. Silver gelatin print. Undated, probably 1940s. | src Revere Auctions via Bidsquare

Lilliput Annual 1940 comparisons

The Lilliput Annual 1940 comparisons [src design observer]
1) Rhythmical gymnasts. Photograph: Keystone / Throwing a Mills bomb. Photograph: Topical
2) Calf’s eye. Photograph: Ylla (Camilla Koffler) / Girl’s eye. Photograph: Dorien Leigh
3) Australian / Australian. Photographs: Central Press
4) Man’s idea of the human body / Nature’s idea of the human body. Photographs: uncredited
5) Stone heads unearthed in Mexico. Photograph: Wide World / Baseball player: Photograph: Keystone
6) Penelope Dudley-Ward and Flora Robson. Photographs: Angus McBean

Dangers, Lilliput, Aug. 1941

Lilliput comparison from August 1941 issue. Lilliput Pocket Omnibus (aka Lilliput: The Pocket Magazine for Everyone) which was a pocket-sized monthly magazine produced by Stefan Lorant, Hungarian photojournalist, author, and filmmaker who had served time in a Nazi prison. The magazine was known for Lorant’s juxtapositions of images for political or aesthetic effects. | source Flickr

Female nude, ca. 1940-1950

Pierre Auradon ou Jean-Marie Auradon :: Nu féminin, ca. 1940-1950. Épreuve argentique d'époque. Épreuve d'artiste non émargée. | src Le Floc'h, maison de ventes
Pierre Auradon ou Jean-Marie Auradon :: Nu féminin, ca. 1940-1950. Épreuve argentique d’époque. Épreuve d’artiste non émargée. | src Le Floc’h, maison de ventes

Female nude, 1930-1950

Jean-Marie Auradon :: Nu féminin allonguée, ca. 1930-1950. Épreuve argentique d'époque. | src Le Floc'h, maison de ventes
Jean-Marie Auradon :: Nu féminin allonguée, ca. 1930-1950. Épreuve argentique d’époque. | src Le Floc’h, maison de ventes
Pierre Auradon or Jean-Marie Auradon :: Étude de nu (jambes), 1930-1950. Épreuve argentique d'époque. | src Le Floc'h
Pierre Auradon or Jean-Marie Auradon :: Étude de nu (jambes), 1930-1950. Épreuve argentique d’époque. | src Le Floc’h

Untitled (1938) by Auradon

Jean Marie Auradon :: Untitled (Woman), 1938. Vintage gelatin silver print. | src Fotografia (Milano 2020) chez Finarte Auctions at asction.fr and Bidsquare. The photograph is signed J.M. Auradon but both auction houses credited it to Pierre Auradon's.
Jean Marie Auradon :: Untitled (Woman), 1938. Vintage gelatin silver print. | src Fotografia (Milano 2020) chez Finarte Auctions at asction.fr and Bidsquare. The photograph is signed J.M. Auradon but both auction houses credited it to Pierre Auradon’s.
Jean-Marie Auradon :: Female Nude, 1940s. Silver print. | src and hi-res iphoto central
Jean-Marie Auradon :: Female Nude, 1940s. Silver print. | src and hi-res iphoto central