Chrysalis (1933) by R. Maingot

**Rosalind Maingot ::** ‘Chrysalis’, Art Deco nude study, 1933. From: The Amateur Photographer, November 1933. | src eBay

**Rosalind Maingot ::** ‘Chrysalis’, Art Deco nude study, 1933. From the London Salon of Photography. Published in *The Amateur Photographer & Photographic News*, November 1933. | src eBay

The Silk Scarf (Nude study), 1933

**Rosalind Maingot** (1894-1957) :: «The Silk Scarf» (Nude study), ca. 1933. From: Photograms of the Year 1933, the annual publication of pictorial photography. Plate VI. | src eBay

**Rosalind Maingot** (1894-1957) :: «The Silk Scarf» (Nude study), ca. 1933. Rosalind Maingot [FRPS] came into her photography career after a successful career as an actress. Born in Australia, Maingot studied at the London School of Photography after marrying a surgeon and settling in London. Her work includes figure studies, still lifes and flowers, but throughout her photographs of women, influences from her previous acting career can be seen both in terms of pose and emotion. The Camera Club Archive holds several works by Maingot, including some of her beautiful costume studies.
She later became a successful medical photographer, working alongside her husband, and was one of the key people involved in setting up the Royal Photographic Society’s Medical group.
She was one of the greatest of contemporary portrait photographers and one of the few women to be made a fellow of the Royal Photographic Society of Great Britain. | quoted from src eBay

The Brass Tray, ca. 1929

**Bernard Leedham ::** The Brass Tray, 1931 (?). Art Deco nude study. From Photograms of the Year 1929. | src eBay

**Bernard Leedham ::** The Brass Tray, 1931 (?). Art Deco nude study. From Photograms of the Year 1929. Bernard Leedham was a fellow of the Royal Photographic Society based in south west London. He exhibited internationally between 1927 and 1933. | src eBay

Edle Nacktheit in China (1928)

**Heinz von Perckhammer ::** “Edle Nacktheit in China”, Macao, ca. 1920; photogravure on Japan paper | src Collezione Molinario

**Heinz von Perckhammer ::** The Culture of the Nude in China. Berlin; Eigenbrodler Verlag, [1928] | src heritage auctions

**Heinz von Perckhammer ~** From “Edle Nacktheit in China”. Eigenbrödler Verlag [Berlin, 1928] 1st edition (cover) | src sworders

**Heinz von Perckhammer ~** From “Edle Nacktheit in China /The culture of the Nude in China”. Eigenbrodler Verlag [Berlin, 1928]

**Heinz von Perckhammer ::** “The culture of the Nude in China”, Macao, ca. 1920; original photogravure on Japan paper | src Collezione Molinario

Heinz von Perckhammer was born in Merano, Austria-Hungary (now Italy) in 1895. During the First World War he served aboard the SMS Kaiserin Elisabeth during the Siege of Tsingtao and between 1917 and 1919 was held as a prisoner of war. It was during this time when he was held captive that his interest in photography began. He apparently remained in China for much of the 1920s, and took these soft-focused and stylized photographs of women from Macao brothels.

In the introduction to Edle Nacktheit in China he writes: ‘Pictures of nude women, setting aside the ugly caricatures of the “Spring pictures” of erotic scenes, simply do not exist in China. Therefore I believe, I have created something entirely new and of value.’ Edle Nacktheit in China was later banned by the Nazis as degenerate art (Entartete Kunst) and appeared on the Liste des schädlichen und unerwünschten Schrifttums [List of harmful and undesirable writing].