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Karl Andreyevich Fischer** :: Mytyl (Alisa Coonen) and Tyltyl (Sofya Khalyutina), in ‘The Blue Bird’. Konstantin Stanislavski’s production of Maurice Maeterlinck’s ‘The Blue Bird ’ at the Moscow Arts Theatre, 1908 / src: NYPL and Wikimedia
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** Photographer’s name on verso of the postcard: “К. Фишер Mockba”
Sasha (Alexander Stewart) ::
Alicia Nikitina & Serge Lifar in Ballets Russes’ La Chatte, 1928. “La
Chatte” (The ‘She’ Cat) is a ten-minute piece
with set and costumes by avant-garde artists Naum Gabo and Antoine
Pevsner. It was created in 1926-27 for Sergei Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes
and it starred Serge Lifar as the Young Man and Alicia Nikitina and
Olga Spessivtzeva in the title role. The music was written by Henri
Sauguet and choreographed by George Balanchine. / source: Flickr
Mimesis series, 1970s
Standing Female Nudes, ca. 1850
Although Moulin was sentenced in 1851 to a month in jail for producing images that, according to court papers, were “so obscene that even to pronounce the titles . . . would be to commit an indecency,” this daguerreotype seems more allied to art than to erotica. Instead of the boudoir props and provocative poses typical of hand-colored pornographic daguerreotypes, Moulin depicted these two young women utterly at ease, as unselfconscious in their nudity as Botticelli’s Venus. [quoted from The Met]
Forcano · La mirada insondable
un regard oblique 