Category: vintage photograph, vintage snapshot, vernacular photograph, vintage photo, photographie vintage
Lilya Brik and Elsa Triolet ca. 1918
Girl in rabbit costume · 1922
postcard of a woman reading 1915
Josefina Oliver · cross-dressing
‘(…) Sunday 8th- Very nice day. Carnival’s burial. (…) Pepe went hunting and I dressed up as a man having a succès d’estime. Pepe came a little later and I decked him out with a dress of mine, Porota wore her paper suit and after dressing up granddaddy ridiculously, we devoted ourselves to perpetuate the memory of our joke through photography. As the audience, all the people from the kitchen, Luis, his wife, his children and even the workman celebrating the scene (…)’. Diary 4, p. 257 and 258, March 1908
Josefina Oliver (1875-1956) began as a vocational photographer among her friends in 1897. Two years later, she takes the first one of her one hundred self-portraits and photographs her friends and relatives, houses’ interiors and landscapes in the family farm in San Vicente. Josefina, a common porteña, was almost invisible. Author of a luminous ouvre, hidden until 2006, as a consequence of a society that disregarded women’s inner self.
Josefina Oliver reflects this reality in her artistic work so far composed by 20 volumes of a personal diary, more than 2700 photographs, collages and postcards. Plenty of her shots are conceived with scenographies; she always develops them and paints the best copies with bright colors. She makes up twelve albums, four of them are wonderful and only have illuminated photographs. At the same time, a transversal humor appears behind her multiform ouvre.
quoted from Josefina Oliver
Anaïs Nin through the years
Colleagues keeping warm 1951
Original caption on source: Miss Maria Chaliter, of Lowfield Heath, Crawley, Sussex, has advertised for a home for her 14 year old pet, an Indian monkey named Josephine. The owner has little time to devote to Josephine new she works on the land. During the day the monkey sits between a hot water bottle and paraffin stove to keep warm, with its colleague, Peter the cat. These pictures show the scene in the kitchen of Miss Chaliter’s home today with Josephine endeavouring to keep warm. November 1951.