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In 1915 Gimpel befriended a group of children from the Grenata Street neighborhood in Paris who had established their own “army”. He began to visit them regularly on Sundays, helping them to build their arsenal from whatever was to hand, providing direction in “casting”, and recording with his camera the army’s triumphs over the evil enemy, the Boche.
Gimpel was charmed by these children and came to know each of them well: the “chief”, the eldest in the garrison; his friend, who was conscripted to play the unenviable role of the Boche; and Pépète, who was “small, slightly misshaped, rather scrofulous, looking somewhat like a gnome” but who nonetheless played the part of an ace aviator. At the end of each session, Gimpel would reward the troops with barley sugar, causing all to shout with one voice, “Long live the photograph!”
quoted from Luminous-Lint online exhibition : Autochromes and Autochromists of WWI

From : La guerre de gosses, Léon GIMPEL, Paris, 1915
More images at Images en ligne de la Société française de photographie (SFP)



![Juana im Kampf mit ihrem Spiegelbild im Teich [Doña Juana, 1928] UHU 4.1927-28, H.3 Elisabeth Bergner in Dona Juana, 1928](https://unregardoblique.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/uhu-4.1927-28-h.3-elisabeth-bergner-in-dona-juana-crp.jpg)
![Juana im Kampf mit ihrem Spiegelbild im Teich [Doña Juana, 1928] UHU 4.1927-28, H.3 Elisabeth Bergner in Dona Juana, 1928](https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52794499433_c705132906_o.jpg)




All images from UHU Magazin: Mit Elisabeth Bergner in Spanien by Paul Czinner, a detailed review of Béla Balázs film Doña Juana, starring Elisabeth Bergner. Aufnahmen: Poetic-Film (phot. Ewald)


Bihō Takahashi / Nomura Yoshikuni 野村美邦 / Hirose Yoshikuni
Sealed: Yoshikuni (美邦). Signed: Yoshikuni (美邦). / Meiji Period


Surrealist artist Mary Leonora Carrington was born at Westwood House (in Clayton Green, England) on the 6th of April in 1917; today she would have turned 106.







All five images are part of a notebook with 108 Photographs of Models Owned by Jacques de Lalaing (1858-1917). Access to the whole notebook held at Rijksmusem, here: follow link >>> (RP-F-2001-4)




