
Bather at the beach, 1912. Vintage postcard. | src: Del Campe
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Bather at the beach, 1912. Vintage postcard. | src: Del Campe

Karl Struss :: Woman and Branch, 1912 | more [+] by this photographer

Clarence H. White :: Alvin Langdon and Edith Coburn,
October 1912. / src: George Eastman Museum
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Painter Louise Catherine Breslau (1857-1926), born Maria Luise Katharina Breslau with her dogs, Paris, 1912

Painter Louise Catherine Breslau (1857-1926), born Maria Luise Katharina Breslau
in her studio in 1912. (by Agence Rol) / source: wikimedia

Flores La Due performing fancy rope trick at the Calgary Exhibition and Stampede, ca.1912 / source: Twitter


It has been suggested that this photograph, the only [known] nude by de Meyer, has some connection to the Ballets Russes, but the nature of that link remains mysterious. The image vibrates with an uneasy erotic tension, a product of the figure’s exposed torso, startled body language, and disguised identity. (quoted from The Met)

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Anne Brigman :: Finis, 1912. Photogravure From Camera Work No. 38. | src KQED Arts and Artnet
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‘Our pumpkins’. The Harvey Gill family seated on pumpkins in a pumpkin patch, ca. 1912. / source: Charles Elliott Gill Photograph Collection, Missouri State Archives, Jefferson City / via