Category: photography, photographie, fotografia, fotografía, Fotografie

Musidora as Allegria, 1920

Musidora as Allegria (Pour don Carlos). Lectures pour tous (Paris). November 1920
Musidora dans le rôle d’Allegria (Pour don Carlos). Lectures pour tous: revue universelle et populaire illustrée. Hachette (Paris). Edi-Monde (Paris). nov. 1920. | src BnF

Arabesque, 1925

White Studio :: Bela Lugosi and Hortense Alden in Arabesque, 1925. Reverse displays photo credit ink stamp and a descriptive caption label: Hortense Alden (the Bedouin) and Bela Lugosi (the Sheik), whom she lures to his destruction in “Arabesque”, a modern comedy of manners at the National Theatre. | src Heritage Auctions

Madam Satan waltz, 1930

Kay Johnson and Reginald Denny photographed by Manatt. Special photography for Cecil B. DeMille’s bizarre musical comedy, Madam Satan. The paper caption on reverse describes the image as Kay Johnson and Reginald Denny performing the Madam Satan waltz, aboard the Zeppelin. The photo attempts to create a more fantasy intense mood for the film since it was actually a very light comedy about an attempt by a wife, donning a disguise, to re-seduce her husband into submission. | src Heritage Auctions | view related post, here

Dahlias, ca. 1930

Leendert Blok (1895-1986) :: Dahlia, Edith Carter, ca. 1927. Autochrome. | src Box Galerie
Leendert Blok (1895-1986) :: Dahlia, Edith Carter, ca. 1927. Autochrome. | src Les extravagantes – Box Galerie
Leendert Blok (1895-1986) :: Dahlia, ca. 1930. Autochrome. | src Les extravagantes - Box Galerie
Leendert Blok (1895-1986) :: Dahlia, ca. 1930. Autochrome. | src Les extravagantes – Box Galerie

On a mountain slope, 1908

Heinrich Kühn :: Mary Warner am Berghang (Mary Warner on a mountain slope), 1908. Autochrome. | src ÖNB