Category: photogravure, gravure, heliogravure

Javanese nude, 1920s

Frieda Gertrud Riess :: Javanese-French nude, 1920s. Original photogravure printed in 1925. | src vintageads on eBay
Frieda Gertrud Riess :: Javanese-French nude, 1920s. Original photogravure printed in 1925. | src vintageads on eBay
Frieda Riess :: Mischling aus Java (Vater aus Frankreich). Editiert und gedruckt 1925 von der Gesellschaft zur Verbreitung klassischer Kunst, Berlin. | src artografie on eBay
Frieda Riess :: Mischling aus Java (Vater aus Frankreich). Editiert und gedruckt 1925 von der Gesellschaft zur Verbreitung klassischer Kunst, Berlin. | src artografie on eBay

Berlinerin Akt, um 1925

Frieda Gertrud Riess :: Berlinerin Akt, um 1925. Heliogravüre. Editiert und gedruckt 1925 von der Gesellschaft zur Verbreitung klassischer Kunst, Berlin. | src artografie on eBay
Frieda Gertrud Riess :: German Nude. Photogravure from Natur und Kultur Das Weiss, 1925. | src liveauctioneers

Viennese nude, 1920s

Dora Horovitz :: Viennese nude, 1920s. Original vintage photogravure printed 1925. | src vintageads on eBay
Dora Horovitz :: Wienerin Akt, um 1925. Heliogravur. Editiert und gedruckt 1925 von der Gesellschaft zur Verbreitung klassischer Kunst, Berlin. | src artografie on eBay

Hungarian nude, 1920s

József Pécsi :: Hungarian nude, 1920s. Original vintage photogravure printed in 1925. | src vintageads on eBay

German (Bavarian) nude, 1920s

Unknown :: German nude, original vintage photogravure print from the 1920s, printed 1925. | src vintageads on eBay
Unknown amateur photographer :: Mädchen/Frau aus Bayern ~ Akt (Bavarian nude), 1925. Heliogravüre. | src artografie on eBay

Danish Nude, 1920s

Trude Fleischmann :: Danish Nude, 1920s. Bound sheet fed photogravure, printed in 1925. | src vintageads on eBay

Wienerin Akt, 1925

Hermann Schieberth (1876 – 1948) :: Austrian Nude, 1920s. Photogravure. | src eBay
Hermann Schieberth (1876 – 1948) :: Wienerin (Akt), 1925. Heliogravur. Original der Zeit. Editiert und gedruckt 1925 von der Gesellschaft zur Verbreitung klassischer Kunst, Berlin. | src artografie on eBay
Hermann Schieberth (1876 – 1948) :: Viennese woman (nude), 1925. Heliogravure. | src artografie on eBay

Kaloma, 1914

Kaloma, Pastime Novelty Company (PNC, PNCo.), 1914. Gelatin silver print. Unknown photographer. A nude woman, allegedly Josephine Earp, draped in a long, transparent veil. The veil covers her head and is draped to the ground. She is standing with both hands in front of her. | src The J. Paul Getty Museum
Kaloma, 1914. Toned silver print with hand-coloring. Photographer’s blind stamp, including title, copyright and date. | src Heritage Auctions

This portrait gained fame when it was rumored to be Josephine Sarah Marcus, Wyatt Earp’s third wife. A novelty company, The Pastime Novelty Company, in New York City, published the picture as a postcard, and Kaloma became widely popular as a pin-up during World War I.

Photogravure of a semi-nude woman published on the cover of I Married Wyatt Earp | src wikimedia

This photogravure (image above) of a semi-nude woman was published on the cover of I Married Wyatt Earp. Editor Glen Boyer insisted it was a picture of Josephine Earp from 1880 but the picture was actually copyrighted in 1914. The 1914 copyright is the earliest known version of the photograph. Circulated by the ABC Novelty Company in Brooklyn, New York, in 1914. It is labeled “Kaloma” underneath, and at the bottom right is printed, “© 1914-P.N.Co.”, which was the copyright of the Pastime Novelty Company.

Kaloma [semi-nude woman scantily clad in a see-through silk garment], 1914. Copyright: M.L. Pressler (Canada), 1914. The most famous photo of Sadie Earp (**) that does not depict her. | src eBay
(**) Josephine Sarah “Sadie” Earp (née Marcus; 1861 – 1944) third wife of Wyatt Earp.