A flexible flapper in 1925. Unknown photographer. General Photographic Agency / Getty Images / src: The Guardian
Tag: flapper
Fun on the Beach. Flappers fooling around with giant lobster. 1920′s
Charles Sheldon :: Bathing Beauty Flapper Cools off with Fan, 1920′s
Charles Sheldon was a prolific and gifted early 1900’s American
Illustrator who specialized in “pretty woman” themed cover portraiture
and advertising in the Art Nouveau and Edwardian styles. After studying
at the Art Students League, he went to Paris to study under the
legendary Alphonse Mucha. He returned to America and set up a studio at
Carnegie Hall in New York City.
By 1921
he was contributing high fashion portraits to Woman’s Home Companion
and Theater magazine. Famous women all over the world arranged to sit
for portraits in his studio in Carnegie Hall in New York. The pastels he
created for Photoplay 1925-1930 launched his career as a portrait cover
artist. [read more] / original source: eBay
more [+] by this photographer
Mary Pickford in Kiki, directed by Sam Taylor (1931) / via
lilipopeline
Clara Bow as
Nasa Springer
in Call Her Savage directed by John Francis Dillon, 1932 / via
sexdeathandcinema
‘Do ducks swim? Misses Eugenia Dunbar and Mary Moose.’ The main focus here is of course the horse trough, once a common item of street furniture in many big cities. National Photo. Glass negative. April 21, 1927 / src and hi-res: Shorpy
Otto Dyar :: Louise Brooks and her brother Ted, 1928 / via gmgallery
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