Wallace Kirkland :: Boy twisting himself into a yoga position, 1940. / src: The LIFE Images Collection
Tag: 1940s
Herbert List :: Operation des Schielens (Surgery for Squint), Vienna, Austria, 1943-1944 |
From the photo-essay on “Praüscher’s Panoptikum”, a grotesque chamber of horrors dating from 1870, it contained wax figures of historical personages, inventions, events, crimes, medical abnormalities and anatomical depictions. It was already banned at this time and by the end of the war was destroyed by the SS shortly thereafter.
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Ladies Sunbathing in London, 1942
These girls still managed to look relaxed and chic while tanning in a park in 1942, as rationing went on around them. A sun tan was the perfect alternative to stockings. And check out those John Lennon-style round sunglasses. This scene would not look amiss on Primrose Hill in 2013. / src: vintag.es
Bob Landry :: Beautiful Women’s Fashion in Post-Liberation Paris, 1944. Fashion shots for LIFE by war-photographer
who had covered the war in North Africa as well as in other parts of Europe, Paris, August 1944. / src: vintag.es
Fernand Fonssagrives :: Lisa Fonssagrives wears a gown and wrap by Jacques Fath, standing in a windowsill, Paris, 1949 / via wehadfacesthen
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Uncredited Photographer. Martha Graham Dancing the Role of Medea in Her Dance “Cave of the Heart,” Holding a Wire Sculpture Made by Isamu Noguchi, 1946 / via kvetchlandia
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Reard Fashion Show, 1946. Bikini briefs in the forties were huge (literally) and always teamed with an on-point structured top. Here models perfect their catwalk struts at the Reard show by the pool. / src: marie claire uk
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A welder works on cowls for liberty ships in California, 1942. Photograph by Acme News Pictures, Inc. Uncredited photographer. / via natgeofound
Rita Hayworth in The Lady of Shanghai, directed by Orson Welles, 1947
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