Category: photography, photographie, fotografia, fotografía, Fotografie

Who is Musidora?

Photographie publicitaire de Musidora revêtue de son collant noir devenu iconique grâce au film Les Vampires de Louis Feuillade, ca. 1915 | Musidora, qui êtes-vous?
Who is Souricette? Musidora with her dog, Lacsalé. French cigarette card by Cigarettes Le Nil, nº 38. Photo by Henri Manuel | src flickr

In this cigarette card […] she is dressed in her famous costume from Les vampires. It’s a typical outfit worn by the thieves operating in hotels. […] In French, those thieves are called ‘souris d’hôtel’. ‘Souricette’ being a kind of diminutive form of ‘souris’, maybe that’s where the publishers got their idea.” Quoted from Flickr

Musidora as Irma Vep

Publicity shot of Musidora wearing her iconic maillot from the 1915 film Les Vampires by Louis Feuillade (ca. 1915) | src IMdB
Henri Manuel :: Photographie de Musidora (Irma Vep) allongée. (ca. 1915) | src La Cinémathèque Française | related post

Still life with geraniums, 1907

Heinrich Kühn :: Stillleben mit Pelargonien (Still life with geraniums), 1907. Autochrome. | src ÖNB

Still life with violets and leaves

Heinrich Kühn :: Stillleben mit Veilchen und Blättern im Glas (Still life with violets and leaves in a glass jar), 1910. Autochrome. | src ÖNB

Dietrich on film set, 1939

German-American actress Marlene Dietrich (in costume as Frenchy) bathes her feet in a pail on the set of ‘Destry Rides Again’ (directed by George Marshall), California, 1939. | src Getty Images