
Anonymous photographer. USA, ca. 1940 / via
lumiere des roses
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Anonymous photographer. USA, ca. 1940 / via
lumiere des roses

Arnold Genthe :: Dancer Francesca Biaggiotti posing in a classical nude style. This negative is part of a photoshoot session from August 1927. A rare nude
from the photographer who is better known for his images of early 1900′s San Francisco and his celebrity portraiture.
/ original source: eBay
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Jaroslav Vávra (1920-1981) :: Sign, 1970. Vintage ferrotyped gelatin silver print. / src: The Saleroom

Publicity photo of Howard Chandler Christy and model.
The model standing at the left of the easel is draped a little, but the image on the canvas is draped not at all.
/ source: artcontrarian

Julien Levy :: Frida Kahlo (topless, doing her hair), Mexico, ca. 1938
/ src: Philadelphia Museum of Art

Ilse Hoffmann :: unknown title, 1937 / src: MC on FB

Walter Bird :: “Aphrodite”. Original vintage photoetching, 1938. Signature stamp, verso. Photoetchings are similar to photogravures/relief etchings. Bird and his contemporaries used this technique as a medium for original expression, rather than as a method of reproduction./ src: Liveauctioneers