images that haunt us
Albert Witzel :: Vintage and original photograph of silent film actress May Allison. A fashionable pictorialist offering. Allison stuns in an lavish fur coat that reveal just a hint of her embroidered silk stockings. This is a beautifully composed antique portrait from Hollywood’s early years,
ca. late 1910′s – early 1920′s (Metro Pictures ink stamp on verso) / src: eBay
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Marlene Dietrich at a premiere in Hollywood, 1932. Uncredited photographer. / via wehadfacesthen
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Ormond Gigli :: Sophia Loren sitting on windowsill, nd / src: Diletta Pia on FB
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Pjeter Marubi :: Muslim Girl, Albania, 1884./ src: bookoffixedstars
Katharine Hepburn (RKO, 1930′s).
A
casually beautiful portrait of the young star in a striped art deco
bathing suit, ready for a day at the beach. Just a tremendous Golden Age
of Hollywood artifact that appears to have been published in an issue
of Motion Picture Magazine. The exact year is unknown, but handwritten
text to verso seems to link this to a publicity campaign for a Hepburn
movie that never completed filming, “Three Came Unannounced.” original source: eBay / via
gmgallery
Thomas E.
Askew ::
Four African American women seated on steps of building at Atlanta University, Georgia, 1899-1900.
Forms part of: Daniel Murray Collection (Library of Congress)
un regard oblique 