
Benjamin J. Falk :: Nance O’Neil, 1867 / src: Theatrical Portraiture and the Pathognomy of Performance
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Benjamin J. Falk :: Nance O’Neil, 1867 / src: Theatrical Portraiture and the Pathognomy of Performance

Actress Tallulah Bankhead (1903 – 1968) having a sultry smoke, ca 1930. (Getty Images)

Julia Cumes :: Orphan baby elephant, 2014

Bertram (Buddy) Longworth :: Greta Garbo film still from the film The Temptress (Fred Niblo, MGM, 1926) / source: Garbo Forever
“For each MGM film Garbo was photographed on the set by a still photographer.
Garbo also had at least one session with a portrait photographer.
Ruth Harriet Louise made the portraits during the filming of The Temptress. The Stills were made during the production by Bertram (Buddy) Longworth.” [quoted from source]
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Luis González Palma :: from ‘Tu Mirada Me distorsiona Sin Saberlo’ (Portraits), 2009 / source: GonzalezPalma
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Hansel Mieth :: “you see one of the inhabitants of the monkey colony on tiny Santiago Island, off Puerto Rico
. He is resting on a sand bar a quarter mile from shore…”, January 1939 (quoted from source: The LIFE Picture Collection / Getty Images)

Anthony Perkins for Psycho directed by Alfred Hitchcock, 1960 (Paramount Pictures)

Ruth Orkin :: Artist in Montmartre, Paris, 1951.
Gelatin silver print. / src: Howard Greenberg
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Edith Tudor-Hart :: A child stares into a Whitechapel bakery window, London, 1935