Portrait of dancer by Offner

**Mortimer Offner** (attr. to) (1900-1965) :: Stella Berch (sic), dancer, 1923. Vintage gelatin silver print applied on original cardboard. | src Drouot & Finarte Italia

**Mortimer Offner** (American, 1900 – 1965) :: Stella Bloch, ca. 1923. Platinum print. | src Nelson Atkins Museum

Virgin Mary by Charles Berg

**Charles I. Berg ::** [Mary] Woman posed as the Virgin Mary, head-and-shoulders with halo, 1900s | src Library of Congress

**Charles I. Berg** (1856-1926) :: [Mary] Woman posed as the Virgin Mary, head-and-shoulders with halo
[between 1900 and 1910] Platinum print. Signed in pencil on back of mount: “Chas. I. Berg, N.Y.”

**Charles I. Berg ::** [Mary] Woman posed as the Virgin Mary, head-and-shoulders with halo, 1900s [DETAIL]

Night by Charles Berg

**Charles I. Berg ::** Night. A nude woman draped in gauzy fabric posing as if a statue. Copyrighted 1896 by Chas. I. Berg. Platinum print. | src Library of Congress

Charles I. Berg :: Night. A nude woman draped in gauzy fabric posing as if a statue. Copyrighted 1896 by Chas. I. Berg. Platinum print. | Library of Congress — **Charles I. Berg ::** Night. A nude woman draped in gauzy fabric posing as if a statue. Copyrighted 1896 by Chas. I. Berg. Platinum print. | Library of Congress

Lagrimas Negras · Saudek · 1989

Jan Saudek :: La Crimas Negras [# 103, model print], 1979-1989. Finished April 1982. From : Taroty series | src Galerie Art Praha

Jan Saudek :: [# 103, model print] [La Crimas Negras], Finished July 23rd, 1989. From : Taroty series

Jan Saudek · some nudes

**Jan Saudek ::** Theater of Life, Panorama, 1991

**Jan Saudek ::** Paula poses for the first and the last time, 1978. | src Lempertz

**Jan Saudek ::** No title (Draped nude), from the *Story from Czechoslovakia, my country* series, 1965-1975 | src NGV Collection Online

Carte postale Degami

Ritratto di giovane donna, cartolina postale. Fotografo : Degami. S. 426. | src Archivi Alinari ~ image link

Rassegnazione

Medito la vendetta….

The Fondazione Alinari per la fotografia (Archivio Alinari) hosts four similar postcards, the captions are as follows:

Tradimento fu il suo (AVQ-A-000047-0123)
Medito la vendetta (AVQ-A-000047-0122)
Abbandonata al mondo seduttore (AVQ-A-000047-0119)
l’orgoglio del mio onore vincerà (AVQ-A-000047-0118)

La Cigale or Odalesque?

**Emma Justine Farnsworth** :: La Cigale, 1899; photogravure in blue mounted on light gray wove paper.
From : American Pictorial Photography, Series I | src National Gallery of Art

Controversial: is this image Berg’s or Farnsworth’s?

**Charles I. Berg** (American, 1856-1926) :: Odalisque, circa 1897. Photogravure. Camera Notes Vol. 3 No. 3. | The Art of Photogravure

**Charles I. Berg** (American, 1856–1926) :: Odalesque (sic), No. 17 from the portfolio “American Pictorial Photography, Series I” (1899); edition 146/150 | AIC · Art Institute Chicago

This has not been an involuntary mistake, the images had been credited as there were in their respective sources. But there is further to be noticed, as you can see, the image below look more like one of Farnsworth in style and motive.

(***) credits on source is as follows :

Charles I. Berg : Odalesque, 1899
series Title : American Pictorial Photography, Series I
Medium : photogravure in red mounted on green wove paper

Index : American Pictorial Photography, Series I (1899) Published for ‘Camera Notes’ by the Publication Committee of the Camera Club (New York)

Plate 16 : La Cigale …………….. by Emma J. Farnsworth

Plate 17 : Odalesque ………….. by Charles I. Berg

Bearing in mind the photographers’ styles and motives it is highly probable that the plates had been miscredited at the National Gallery of Art. We reckon the last but one image in this post is plate number 16 (La Cigale / Farnsworth); and the other images correspond to plate number 17 : ‘Odalesque’ by Charles Berg.

Anyway, we are not certain about it, but hope that you have enjoyed the images.

Frau von Heute · Fleischmann

**Trude Fleischmann** (1895–1990) ~ Marianne Rosenberg, Vienna, 1931 | Ostlicht Spring 2023 Photo Auction

**Trude Fleischmann** (1895–1990) ~ Marianne Rosenberg, Vienna, 1931 | Detail

Photographer’s stamp with address at “Wien I. Ebendorferstraße 3”, her copyright stamp and her re-order stamp with handwritten negative no. “1039/a” in ink, “Wiener Foto-Kurier” agency stamp, several numbers and handwritten annotated “Frl. Marianne Rosenberg” in pencil on the reverse. LITERATURE “Die junge Frau von Heute”, in: Die Bühne, no. 299, March 1931, Vienna, p. 5 (titled “Fräulein Maria Rosenberg”); Frauke Kreutler, Anton Holzer (eds.), Trude Fleischmann. Der selbstbewusste Blick, cat. Wien Museum, Vienna 2013, p. 127 (ill. from “Die Bühne”).