Tag: athlete

Ice skater (1926)

Figure skating, 1926. Portrait of the Canadian athlete Diana Kingsmill Wright (1908-1982) on ice skates in Mürren. (ACME News-pictures) | src Koller Auktionen
“Figure Skating“, 1926. Portrait of the Canadian athlete Diana Kingsmill Wright (1908-1982) on ice skates in Mürren. (ACME News-pictures) | src Koller Auktionen

Hannah Höch scrapbook, 1933

From Hannah Höch’s Album page (scrapbook), 1933. 
left: Dancer Gret Palucca, ca. 1925. ph, by Charlotte Rudolph (top) & Ursula Richter (bottom).
right: “Stabhochsprung” Athete high jumping (pole vault) and “Starke Geste im modernen Ausdrucktanz (Die Wigmanschülerin Vera Skoronel)”. Expressionist dancer (Wigman student, Vera Skoronel) ph. by Suse Byk. | src Female artists
Suse Byk :: Vera Skoronel, Postkarte, Privatbesitz. | src Georg Kolbe Museum, Berlin on FB
Charlotte Rudolph :: Gret Palucca in Hochsprung, ca. 1925. Published in monthly magazine UHU, Feb. 1926. Uhu magazin was published between 1924 and 1934 in Berlin by Ullstein Verlag. | direct link to source
Ursula Richter :: Dancer Gret Palucca, ca. 1925. Published in monthly magazine UHU, Februar 1926.

Otto Bettmann :: Patricia McCormick Diving in Olympics, Helsinki, Finland, 1952 [Original
Caption: Mrs. Patricia
McCormick of Los Angeles, CA, shows off her championship form as she
executes a difficult maneuver on the Olympic springboard in Helsinki.
Mrs. McCormick’s form won her the springboard diving title and the gold
medal which accompanies the title. 30th July 1952]

source: Bettmann Archives at Getty Images

This photograph was used in the art cover of
‘Luxury Problems’ (2012), the second studio album by English techno musician Andy Stott.