Tag: 1920s

Hedy Pfundmayr als Elektra

Rudolf Koppitz :: Dancer Hedy Pfundmayr with Elektra-mask, ca. 1928. Gelatin silver print. Photoinstitut Bonartes. | src Getty Images
Rudolf Koppitz :: Dancer Hedy Pfundmayr with Elektra-mask by Richard Teschner, ca. 1928. Gelatin silver print. Photoinstitut Bonartes. | src Getty Images
Rudolf Koppitz :: Dancer Hedy Pfundmayr with Elektra-mask by Richard Teschner, 1928. Scanned from Paroles de corps (la chorĂ©graphie au XXe siĂšcle) Thierry Villa, Ed. Du ChĂȘne, 1998. | src stephenellcock and ourpastdreams
Rudolf Koppitz :: Dancer Hedy Pfundmayr with Elektra mask, 1930. Photoinstitut Bonartes. | courtesy Alan Griffiths Luminous-Lint LL/51139

Movement study by Koppitz

Rudolf Koppitz (1884-1936) ~ Movement Study (Variation), 1925. Bromoil print | src Photoinstitut Bonartes via LL/51132
Rudolf Koppitz (1884-1936) ~ Motion study, 1925. Bromoil print. Photoinstitut Bonartes | src getty images

The American Venus, 1926

A scene from the lost film “The American Venus” (Frank Tuttle, 1926). Published in Film Fun, June 1926. | src internet archive
«Lady in the left window: I wonder why Helen of Troy had such a reputation for beauty.»
« Lady in the right window: Why, that’s easy to see. She got all her clothes from Paris.»

Ethel Struss by Window, ca. 1921

Karl Struss (1886–1981) :: Ethel in the Window, ca. 1921. Gelatin silver print. Bottom edge, in black marker(?): Ethel Struss by Window. | src Amon Carter Museum of American Art, Fort Worth, Texas, Gift of Anne Volokh, 2019

Gruppenakt von Koppitz

Rudolf Koppitz (1884-1936) ~ Gruppenakt | Group of nudes, b. 1924. Bromoil print. Photoinstitut Bonartes | src getty images

Valeska Gert posing comically

James Abbe :: German dancer Valeska Gert posing comically on top of a hamper, ca 1926. She shocked the audience at the Champs Elysees by following the dancing tradition of Isadora Duncan. (Photo by James Abbe for General Photographic Agency). | src and hi-res Getty Images