Visual dialogue · Tornadoes

Tornado near Jasper, Minnesota, July 8, 1927 taken by 15 year old Lucille Handberg | src Billy Parrot Collection (view on Fb)

Two theories: the second tornado snapshot (on the bottom) had a Canedy’s Camera Shop 1927 date stamp on the verso. Canedy’s was in South Dakota and sold local souvenir snapshots (Bad Lands, Black Hills, etc…) between the 1920s – 1940s. It is also probable that when 15-year old Lucille Handberg took this photo her neighbor, who was an engineer, recognized its importance and sent copies to scientists around the country and these could be two of those. text adapted from source : Billy Parrot

Tornado near Jasper, Minnesota, July 8, 1927 taken by 15 year old Lucille Handberg

The images above this line are most probably scanned from newspapers of the time, we were not able to find the original source. The second image is from The Gallery of Natural Phenomena, where you can read more about the circumstances in which the photo was shot. [x]

Only the image below can be reached on the Library of Congress.

AWE-INSPIRING – This unusual photo of a South Dakota “twister” was made by Miss by Lucille Handberg at the risk of her life.
Published in New Britain Herald (New Britain, Conn.), August 6, 1928, page 14 | src Library of Congress

The classic photograph of a tornado taken near Jasper, Minnesota, on July 8, 1927 (Lucille Handberg) – Scan

Controversy arises : Jasper tornado of 1927 is, according to South Dakota Public Broadcasting (based on information from Siouxland Heritage Museums), the Sioux Falls tornado of 1932…

… view two images below.

The Deadly Sioux Falls Tornado of 1932. Siouxland Heritage Museums | src images of the Past

The Deadly Sioux Falls Tornado of 1932. Siouxland Heritage Museums | src South Dakota Public Broadcasting

Image of the *famous tornado* used on the cover of book ‘The Breath of God’ by Swami Chetanananda [作者] (1988) | src amazon

Image from the cover of book ‘The Breath of God’ by Swami Chetanananda, retrieved from internet archive

Cover of book ‘The Breath of God’ by Swami Chetanananda, retrieved from internet archive

Cover of *Tinderbox*, the seventh album by English rock band Siouxsie and the Banshees, released on 21 April, 1986

Cover design of the album *Stormbringer* by Deep Purple (1974)

Cover of *Bitches Brew*, a studio double album by jazz musician Miles Davis, released on 30 March, 1970

Edle Nacktheit in China (1928)

**Heinz von Perckhammer ::** “Edle Nacktheit in China”, Macao, ca. 1920; photogravure on Japan paper | src Collezione Molinario

**Heinz von Perckhammer ::** The Culture of the Nude in China. Berlin; Eigenbrodler Verlag, [1928] | src heritage auctions

**Heinz von Perckhammer ~** From “Edle Nacktheit in China”. Eigenbrödler Verlag [Berlin, 1928] 1st edition (cover) | src sworders

**Heinz von Perckhammer ~** From “Edle Nacktheit in China /The culture of the Nude in China”. Eigenbrodler Verlag [Berlin, 1928]

**Heinz von Perckhammer ::** “The culture of the Nude in China”, Macao, ca. 1920; original photogravure on Japan paper | src Collezione Molinario

Heinz von Perckhammer was born in Merano, Austria-Hungary (now Italy) in 1895. During the First World War he served aboard the SMS Kaiserin Elisabeth during the Siege of Tsingtao and between 1917 and 1919 was held as a prisoner of war. It was during this time when he was held captive that his interest in photography began. He apparently remained in China for much of the 1920s, and took these soft-focused and stylized photographs of women from Macao brothels.

In the introduction to Edle Nacktheit in China he writes: ‘Pictures of nude women, setting aside the ugly caricatures of the “Spring pictures” of erotic scenes, simply do not exist in China. Therefore I believe, I have created something entirely new and of value.’ Edle Nacktheit in China was later banned by the Nazis as degenerate art (Entartete Kunst) and appeared on the Liste des schädlichen und unerwünschten Schrifttums [List of harmful and undesirable writing].