Category: portrait, Porträt, retrato, ritratto, portret, retrat, Bildnis

Nazimova interview, 1926

Nazimova interviewed by Adela Rogers St. Johns for Photoplay magazine, October 1926. | src internet archive

“I did ‘Salome’ as a purgative”, declares Nazimova. “The trash I had played made me sick with myself. I wanted something so different, so fanciful, so artistic, that it would take the taste out of my mouth”. Costume designs for Salome were Natacha Rambova’s (including the iconic wig).

Remedios Varo, 1950s

Retrato de Remedios Varo en la playa, 1950s. Colección Archivo de obra plástica, documental, bibliográfica y fotográfica de César Moro | src TEA ~ Tenerife espacio de las artes
Remedios Varo sobre una roca (México?), 1952. | src remedios varo official website