Category: bending backwards

Erni Erika by Manassé (ca. 1930)

Atelier Manassé (Olga Spolarics and Adorjan von Wlassics) :: Erni Erika, 1930. Gelatin silver print, ferrotyped. | src Heritage Auctions
Atelier Manassé (Olga Spolarics and Adorjan von Wlassics) :: Erni Erika, 1930. Gelatin silver print, ferrotyped. | src Heritage Auctions
Atelier Manassé (Olga Spolarics and Adorjan von Wlassics) :: Erni Erika, 1930. Gelatin silver print, ferrotyped. | src Heritage Auctions
Atelier Manassé (Olga Spolarics & Adorjan von Wlassics) :: Erni Erika, um 1930. Gelatin silver print, ferrotyped. | src Heritage Auctions

Ballet dancer by Deazeley studio

Ballet dancer Katharine Cook striking a pose, Brisbane, Queensland, 1931. [detail]
Ballet dancer Katharine Cook striking a pose, Brisbane, Queensland, 1931. [detail]
Ballet dancer Katharine Cook striking a pose, Brisbane, Queensland, 1931. photographic print : hand colored. Trissie Deazeley Studio (Brisbane). | src State Library of Queensland
Ballet dancer Katharine Cook striking a pose, Brisbane, Queensland, 1931. Photographic print : hand colored. Trissie Deazeley Studio (Brisbane). | src State Library of Queensland

Giannina Censi at 3200m, 1938

Giannina Censi all'aria aperta, Plan Maison a 3200 m., 30 luglio 1938 di [Guido Tovo] (1) | src and © Mart ~ Fondo Giannina Censi
Giannina Censi all’aria aperta, Plan Maison a 3200 m., 30 luglio 1938 di [Guido Tovo] (1) | src and © Mart ~ Fondo Giannina Censi
Giannina Censi all'aria aperta, Plan Maison a 3200 m., 30 luglio 1938 di [Guido Tovo]. In verso nota ms. "Dal Plan Maison 3200 metri, luglio 1938" (2)
Giannina Censi all’aria aperta, Plan Maison a 3200 m., 30 luglio 1938 di [Guido Tovo]. In verso nota ms. “Dal Plan Maison 3200 metri, luglio 1938” (2)
Giannina Censi all'aria aperta, Plan Maison a 3200 m., 30 luglio 1938 di Guido Tovo. In verso nota ms. "Dal Plan Maison verso il Teodulo a circa 3200 metri - foto eseguita da Guido Tovo il 30 luglio 1938" (3) | src and © Mart ~ Fondo Giannina Censi
Giannina Censi all’aria aperta, Plan Maison a 3200 m., 30 luglio 1938 di Guido Tovo. In verso nota ms. “Dal Plan Maison verso il Teodulo a circa 3200 metri – foto eseguita da Guido Tovo il 30 luglio 1938” (3) | src and © Mart ~ Fondo Giannina Censi

(1) e (2) Pubblicata in Vaccarino E., (a cura di) Giannina Censi: danzare il futurismo. Milano: Electa; Museo di arte moderna e contemporanea di Trento e Rovereto, 1998, pp. 50-51

(1) e (3) Pubblicata in Belli G. (a cura di), Sprachen des Futurismus, Berlin: Berliner Festspiele- Martin Gropius Bau, 2009, p. 243

(3) Pubblicata in Bonfanti E., Il corpo intelligente. Torino: il segnalibro, 1995, p. 51

Vera Cooper, Deauville, 1925 

Miss Vera Cooper poses for journalists on the beach of the French resort of Deauville, France, August 21, 1925. Glass negative. Agence Rol.
Miss Vera Cooper poses for journalists on the beach of the French resort of Deauville, France, August 21, 1925. Glass negative. Agence Rol. | src Gallica ~ BnF
Miss Vera Cooper poses for journalists on the beach of the French resort of Deauville, France, August 21, 1925. Glass negative. Agence Rol.
Miss Vera Cooper poses dancing on the beach of the French resort of Deauville, France, August 21, 1925. Glass negative. Agence Rol. | src Gallica ~ BnF
Miss Vera Cooper poses for journalists on the beach of the French resort of Deauville, France, August 21, 1925. Glass negative. Agence Rol.
Miss Vera Cooper poses for journalists on the beach of the French resort of Deauville, France, August 21, 1925. Glass negative. Agence Rol. | src Gallica ~ BnF
Miss Vera Cooper poses for journalists on the beach of the French resort of Deauville, France, August 21, 1925. Glass negative. Agence Rol.
Miss Vera Cooper poses dancing on the beach of the French resort of Deauville, France, August 21, 1925. Glass negative. Agence Rol. | src Gallica ~ BnF

Jako-Mica by Studio Lorelle

Studio Lorelle - Lucien Lorelle :: Jacqueline Jako-Mica (Nicole Chaumot) at Casino de Paris, 1940s | src Abebooks
Studio Lorelle – Lucien Lorelle :: Jacqueline Jako-Mica (Nicole Chaumot) at Casino de Paris, 1940s | src Abebooks
Studio Lorelle - Lucien Lorelle :: Jacqueline Jako-Mica (Nicole Chaumot) at Casino de Paris, 1940s | src Abebooks
Lucien Lorelle Studio :: Jacqueline Jako-Mica (Nicole Chaumot) at Casino de Paris, 1940s | src Abebooks & Zvab
Studio Lorelle - Lucien Lorelle :: Jacqueline Jako-Mica (Nicole Chaumot) at Casino de Paris, 1940s | src Abebooks
Lucien Lorelle Studio :: Jacqueline Jako-Mica (Nicole Chaumot) and unidentified at Casino de Paris, 1940s | src Zvab

Bea Egerváry von Manassé

Atelier Manassé ~ Flexible like a blade made of precious steel (The dancer Rea [sic] Egerváry)
Scherl’s Magazin, Band 5, Heft 12, Dezember 1929
Atelier Manassé ~ Biegsam wie eine Klinge aus edlem Stahl (Die Tänzerin Bea Egerváry)
Scherl’s Magazin, Band 5, Heft 12, Dezember 1929 [full page]

German Opera House, 1937

Hedda Walther :: A girl doing dance exercises at a barre, 1937. From: German Opera House, Berlin (series). Vintage property of ullstein bild. | src Getty Images
Hedda Walther :: Ballet class. Young girls doing ballet exercises in the German Opera House, Berlin, 1937. Vintage property of ullstein bild. | src Getty Images

Three studies by Domü, 1927

Scherzo. Sonderaufnahme für Tempo. Phot. Domü. Tempo Magazin, 1927, Heft 2. | src Flickr
Studie. Sonderaufnahme für Tempo. Phot. Domü. Tempo Magazin, 1927, Heft 2. | src Flickr
Das Grauen [The Horror]. Sonderaufnahme für Tempo. Phot. Domü. Tempo Magazin, 1927, Heft 2. | src Flickr

Dancers and musician (1920s)

Vintage photographs of thee women wearing Greek gowns, two of them dancing, the third playing flute or Aulos, reclining on a tree. [painted background] From a Vaudeville dancer / model photo album / scrapbook. | src House of Mirth on Abebooks