Tag: hairdo

Cahun as Elle in Barbe Bleu

Claude Cahun :: Self Portrait as Elle in ‘Barbe Bleu’, 1929
Claude Cahun & Marcel Moore :: Untitled, ca. 1929. | src SF-MoMA
Claude Cahun :: Self Portrait as Elle in ‘Barbe Bleu’, 1929
Claude Cahun :: Self Portrait as Elle in ‘Barbe Bleu’, 1929

‘Arethusa’ by Mme Yevonde

Lady Bridget Poulett as 'Arethusa' by Madame Yevonde Vivex colour print, 1935 14 3/4 in. x 10 3/4 in. (374 mm x 274 mm) Given by Madame Yevonde (Yevonde Philone Middleton (née Cumbers)), 1971
Madame Yevonde :: Lady Bridget Poulett as ‘Arethusa’. Vivex colour print, 1935 | NPG
Given by Madame Yevonde (Yevonde Philone Middleton (née Cumbers)), 1971
Madame Yevonde :: Lady Bridget Poulett as 'Arethusa'. Vivex colour print, 1935 | NPG
Madame Yevonde :: Lady Bridget Poulett as ‘Arethusa’. Vivex colour print, 1935 | National Portrait Gallery

Arethusa was a wood nymph from Elis, associated with the goddess Artemis. Pursued relentlessly by the river-god Alpheus, Arethusa begged for Artemis’s help in escaping his attentions. The goddess opened up a passage under the sea which enabled Arethusa to emerge as a spring in Syracuse, on the island of Ortygia (Sicily) – hence the seaweed in Yevonde’s sitter’s hair. (quoted from NPG)

Madame Yevonde :: Lady Bridget Poulett as 'Arethusa'. Vivex colour print, 1935 | NPG
Madame Yevonde :: Lady Bridget Poulett as ‘Arethusa’. Vivex colour print, 1935 | National Portrait Gallery

Rambova by Struss, 1920s

Karl Struss (1886-1981) :: Natacha Rambova, 1920s. [production still]; Gelatin silver print. | src Amon Carter Museum
Karl Struss (1886-1981) :: Natacha Rambova, 1920s. [production still*]; Gelatin silver print. | src Amon Carter Museum of American Art
Karl Struss (1886-1981) :: Natacha Rambova, 1920s. [production still]; Gelatin silver print. | src Amon Carter Museum
Karl Struss (1886-1981) :: Natacha Rambova, 1920s. [production still*]; Gelatin silver print. | src Amon Carter Museum
Karl Struss (1886-1981) :: Natacha Rambova, 1920s. [production still]; Gelatin silver print. | src Amon Carter Museum
Karl Struss (1886-1981) :: Natacha Rambova, 1920s. [production still*]; Gelatin silver print. | src Amon Carter Museum
Karl Struss (1886-1981) :: Natacha Rambova, 1920s. [production still]; Gelatin silver print. | src Amon Carter Museum
Karl Struss (1886-1981) :: Natacha Rambova, 1920s. [production still*]; Gelatin silver print. | src Amon Carter Museum

[*] production stills probably from the film Forbidden Fruit (Cecil B. DeMille, 1921). In the film Rambova (b. Winifred Shaughnessy), along with Mitchell Leisen, was the costume designer and Struss the cinematographer.

Tamiris by Man Ray, ca. 1930

Man Ray ~ Emmanuel Radnitzky (1890 - 1976) :: Helen Tamiris, vers 1930. Epreuve gélatino-argentique. | src Centre Pompidou
Man Ray ~ Emmanuel Radnitzky (1890 – 1976) :: Helen Tamiris, vers 1930. Epreuve gélatino-argentique. | src Centre Pompidou
Man Ray ~ Emmanuel Radnitzky (1890 - 1976) :: Helen Tamiris, vers 1930. Epreuve gélatino-argentique. | src Centre Pompidou
Man Ray ~ Emmanuel Radnitzky (1890 – 1976) :: Helen Tamiris, vers 1930. Epreuve gélatino-argentique. | src Centre Pompidou
Man Ray ~ Emmanuel Radnitzky (1890 - 1976) :: Helen Tamiris, vers 1930. Epreuve gélatino-argentique. | src Centre Pompidou
Man Ray ~ Emmanuel Radnitzky (1890 – 1976) :: Helen Tamiris, vers 1930. Epreuve gélatino-argentique. | src Centre Pompidou

Erna Morena by Karl Schenker

Erna Morena. German postcard. 1910s, Wilhelminian era. Photo by Karl Schenker. P.A.G. Union, Berlin. Film-Sterne nº 79/6. | src Flickr
Karl Schenker :: Bildnis-Photographie. Erna Morena (1885-1962), born Ernestine Maria Fuchs. Signed 1914. | src Deutsche Kunst un Dekoration 1915-1916

Costumes and Customs in Japan

Kazumasa Ogawa (1860 – 1929) :: Hair-gressing (top) · Battle-Dore and Shuttle-Cock Play (bottom). Collotype (both). From: Costumes & Customs in Japan. By K. Ogawa, Photographer, Tokyo, Japan. In Collotype & From Photographic Negatives Taken by Him. Kazumasa Ogawa (1893–1895) | src The J. Paul Getty Museum Collection

Von der Laute bis zum Banjo

Zerline Balten, in “From the Lute to the Banjo” (“Von der Laute bis zum Banjo”), Published in Elegante Welt 14:16 (August 12, 1925): 18. Kunstbibliothek, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin. From Marking Modern Movement: Dance and Gender in the Visual Imagery of the Weimar Republic | src University of Michigan

Molly Wessely, late 1910s

Atelier Mac Walten (Max Gruenthal) :: Molly Wessely (K. 2805), published by Photochemie (Berlin), late 1910s. | src NPG