Tag: 1940s

Mercedes Matter with fishnet

Herbert Matter :: Set of prints from series of Mercedes Matter nudes; Provincetown, ca. 1940. | src Stanford University Libraries
Herbert Matter :: Set of prints from series of Mercedes Matter nudes; Provincetown, ca. 1940. | src Stanford University Libraries
Herbert Matter :: Set of prints from series of Mercedes Matter nudes; Provincetown, ca. 1940. | src Stanford University Libraries
Herbert Matter :: Set of prints from series of Mercedes Matter nudes; Provincetown, ca. 1940. | src Stanford University Libraries

Mercedes Matter nudes, ca. 1940

Herbert Matter :: [Detail] Set of prints from series of Mercedes Matter nudes; Provincetown, ca. 1940. | src Stanford University Libraries
Herbert Matter :: Set of prints from series of Mercedes Matter nudes; Provincetown, ca. 1940. | src Stanford University Libraries
Herbert Matter :: Set of prints from series of Mercedes Matter nudes; Provincetown, ca. 1940. | src Stanford University Libraries

Mercedes with driftwood, ca. 1940

Herbert Matter (1907-1984) :: Mercedes with driftwood; frontal view, Provincetown, ca. 1940. | src Stanford University Libraries
Herbert Matter (1907-1984) :: Mercedes with driftwood; head and hand only, Provincetown, ca. 1940. | src Stanford University Libraries
Herbert Matter (1907-1984) :: Mercedes with driftwood; head and showing one breast, Provincetown, ca. 1940. | src Stanford University Libraries

Nudes (Mercedes Matter), 1940s

Herbert Matter :: Nude (Mercedes Matter), Provincetown, ca. 1946 | src H. Matter website
Herbert Matter :: Mercedes Matter, ca. 1940 | src H. Matter website
Herbert Matter :: Mercedes Matter, ca. 1940 | src H. Matter website

Mercedes with driftwood, ca. 1940

Herbert Matter :: Mercedes with driftwood; shadows from upper thigh; Provincetown, ca. 1940. | src Stanford University Libraries
Herbert Matter :: Mercedes with driftwood, arm overhead, Provincetown, ca. 1940. | src Stanford University Libraries
Herbert Matter (1907-1984) :: Mercedes with driftwood; frontal view, Provincetown, ca. 1940. | src Stanford University Libraries

Sun Bath, 1940

Forman Hanna :: Sun Bath, 1940. Halftone print from Photograms of the Year 1940, the annual publication of pictorial photography. | src eBay
Forman Hanna :: “Sun Bath”, 1940. Halftone print from Photograms of the Year 1940, the annual publication of pictorial photography. Plate XL, full page. | src eBay

Nudes by Yvonne Gregory

Yvonne Gregory (British, 1889-1970) :: Nude, ca. 1935. Matt warm-toned gelatin silver print, mounted on paper, the front signed in pencil, verso with photographer’s label, copyright limitation and label from the Camera Club Permanent Collection. | src Bonhams
Yvonne Gregory :: ‘The Veil’ (Nude study), 1930. Matt warm-toned gelatin silver print, mounted on paper, the front signed in pencil, the verso titled and signed in pencil, with label from the Camera Club Permanent Collection. | src Bonhams
Yvonne Gregory :: ‘In the Sunlight’. Nudes in Nature, 1940s. Matt warm-toned gelatin silver print, mounted on paper, the front signed in pencil, titled on verso with an assortment of labels including photographer’s credit and copyright limitation. | src Bonhams

Eyes of Youth by Rosalind Maingot

Rosalind Maingot (née Rosalind Beddome, 1894-1957) :: Eyes of Youth, ca. 1945. Halftone print. From: Photograms of the Year 1945. | src eBay
Rosalind Maingot :: Eyes of Youth, ca. 1945. Halftone print. | src eBay
Rosalind Beddome was born 1894 in Brisbane, Australia.  After a successful career as an actress she studied at the London School of Photography and married surgeon Rodney Maingot. The influences of her previous career can be seen in her theatrically posed, expressive photographs of portraits, figure studies and flowers. In 1932 she was made a fellow of the Royal Photographic Society and in 1933 had a one woman show at the Camera Club. Her work was published in the Sketch between 1933 and 1946. Later she worked alongside her husband as a medical photographer and helped set up the Royal Photographic Society’s Medical group. In 1947 she went on a lecture tour in America where she socialized with American photographers including Mildred Hatry her account of which was published in the RPS Journal Feb. 1948 “A woman photographer visits America”. She died in 1957 in London. quoted from source