Category: photography, photographie, fotografia, fotografía, Fotografie

The Moon Maiden, 1933

Forman Hanna :: The Moon Maiden, 1933, halftone print from Photograms of the Year 1933, the annual publication of pictorial photography. | src eBay
Forman Hanna :: The Moon Maiden, 1933, halftone print from Photograms of the Year 1933, the annual publication of pictorial photography. Full page. | src eBay

Canyon Nymph, ca. 1920

Forman Hanna :: Canyon Nymph, ca. 1920. Vintage gelatin silver print. Signed and titled in pencil on recto. | src Heritage Auctions
Forman Hanna (American pictorialist, 1882-1950) :: Canyon Nymph, ca. 1920. Vintage gelatin silver print. Signed and titled in pencil on recto. Dry-mounted. | src Heritage Auctions

Acrobatic dancers · Nudes

Laure Albin-Guillot ~ Danseuse acrobatique, 1937. Gelatin silver print. | src Heritage Auctions
Laure Albin Guillot (née Laure Meffredi) ~ Étude de nus, ca. 1935. Tirage argentique d’époque signe au crayon en bas a droite.
Indications au crayon pour une reproduction au verso. | src Leclere maison de ventes
Laure Albin-Guillot ~ Danseuse acrobatique, 1937. Gelatin silver print. | src Heritage Auctions

Dancer in an Egyptian costume

Sasha ~ Alexander Stewart :: A dancer dressed in an ancient Egyptian costume and helmet during Lady Newnes Historical Egyptian Matinée at London’s Hippodrome, 29th May 1930. (Hulton Archive) | src Getty Images

Nudes by Yvonne Gregory

Yvonne Gregory (British, 1889-1970) :: Nude, ca. 1935. Matt warm-toned gelatin silver print, mounted on paper, the front signed in pencil, verso with photographer’s label, copyright limitation and label from the Camera Club Permanent Collection. | src Bonhams
Yvonne Gregory :: ‘The Veil’ (Nude study), 1930. Matt warm-toned gelatin silver print, mounted on paper, the front signed in pencil, the verso titled and signed in pencil, with label from the Camera Club Permanent Collection. | src Bonhams
Yvonne Gregory :: ‘In the Sunlight’. Nudes in Nature, 1940s. Matt warm-toned gelatin silver print, mounted on paper, the front signed in pencil, titled on verso with an assortment of labels including photographer’s credit and copyright limitation. | src Bonhams

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

Eyes of Youth by Rosalind Maingot

Rosalind Maingot (née Rosalind Beddome, 1894-1957) :: Eyes of Youth, ca. 1945. Halftone print. From: Photograms of the Year 1945. | src eBay
Rosalind Maingot :: Eyes of Youth, ca. 1945. Halftone print. | src eBay
Rosalind Beddome was born 1894 in Brisbane, Australia.  After a successful career as an actress she studied at the London School of Photography and married surgeon Rodney Maingot. The influences of her previous career can be seen in her theatrically posed, expressive photographs of portraits, figure studies and flowers. In 1932 she was made a fellow of the Royal Photographic Society and in 1933 had a one woman show at the Camera Club. Her work was published in the Sketch between 1933 and 1946. Later she worked alongside her husband as a medical photographer and helped set up the Royal Photographic Society’s Medical group. In 1947 she went on a lecture tour in America where she socialized with American photographers including Mildred Hatry her account of which was published in the RPS Journal Feb. 1948 “A woman photographer visits America”. She died in 1957 in London. quoted from source

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