
Ken Damy :: Nude, 2005
images that haunt us

Rutger Ten Broeke
:: Het Bad / The Bath, Hengelo, 1979 / src: Early work
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Arthur F. Rice* :: Alla Nazimova in Salomé, 1923 / source: NYPL: Billy Rose Theatre Div. (*) uncredited still photographer for the movie. (Director of photography, Paul Ivano).
The film’s sets and costumes were designed by Natacha Rambova.
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Olive Ann Alcorn by Xan Stark for Alta Studio San Francisco, 1920 from Alta Art Studies
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Sasha (Alexander Stewart) ::
Alicia Nikitina & Serge Lifar in Ballets Russes’ La Chatte, 1928. “La
Chatte” (The ‘She’ Cat) is a ten-minute piece
with set and costumes by avant-garde artists Naum Gabo and Antoine
Pevsner. It was created in 1926-27 for Sergei Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes
and it starred Serge Lifar as the Young Man and Alicia Nikitina and
Olga Spessivtzeva in the title role. The music was written by Henri
Sauguet and choreographed by George Balanchine. / source: Flickr

Josep Masana – Salomé kneeling , beteween 1920-1940 Silver gelatin on paper barity © with the courtesy of the museu nacional d’art de Catalunya
( Digital restored by ourpastdreams)

Rutger Ten Broeke :: Het Bad / The Bath, Hengelo, 1979 / src: Early work
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A Geisha biting a Tenugui, 1920′s
“[She] rises to one knee and puts one end of her [tenugui] hand towel in her teeth, pulling on it with her right hand. This is a typical Kabuki gesture for a female character in the throes of a deep emotion.” According to “The Art of Kabuki” edited by Samuel L. Leiter, first published in 1979, page 114. / src: Blue Ruin