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

Watkins by Frances Bode

Margaret Watkins photographed by Frances M. Bode, 1921 | src Photo España
Margaret Watkins by Frances Bode, Clarence H. White School of Photography, 1921 | src The Guardian

This portrait by Frances Bode was probably taken in the summer of 1921 when Watkins was a teacher at the Clarence H. White School of Photography in New York. It is one of the few portraits of Margaret Watkins

Portrait · Verna Skelton · 1923

Margaret Watkins ~ Portrait Study (Verna Skelton), 1923. Joseph Mulholland Collection (Glasgow) | src The Guardian

This portrait of Verna Skelton is emblematic of Watkins’ portraits. We see the immediate reference to the Dutch painters, and her extraordinary ability to illuminate her subjects.

A fresh angle: The revolutionary gaze of Margaret Watkins – in pictures: Canadian photographer Margaret Watkins rejected traditional gender roles to become a pioneering modernist photographer with Renaissance flair (The Guardian)

Margaret Watkins ~ Portrait Study (Verna Skelton), 1923 | src ODLP ~ l’œil de la photographie

Grethe Ruzt-Nissen (ca. 1922)

Waldemar Eide :: Postkort med motiv av Grethe Ruzt-Nissen (ca. 1922). Eneret Mittet & Co. (nº 12) | src Oslo Museum

Grethe Ruzt-Nissen, ca. 1922

Waldemar Eide :: Postkort (ballettdanserinne, rollebilde) med motiv av Grethe Ruzt-Nissen (ca. 1922). Eneret Mittet & Co. (nº 15) | src Oslo Museum