
Nude by Karel Hájek, 1930s

images that haunt us


Jaroslav Vávra (1920-1981) :: Sign, 1970. Vintage ferrotyped gelatin silver print. / src: The Saleroom

Cang Xin
:: ‘To Add One Meter to an Unknown Mountain’, 1995.
Cang Xin stacked himself and nine fellow artists onto the titular
promontory.
Exhibited at “Body, Self, Society: Chinese Performance Photography of the 1990′s”,
now at the Walther Collection Project Space in NYC. / source:
blakegopnik

Publicity photo of Howard Chandler Christy and model.
The model standing at the left of the easel is draped a little, but the image on the canvas is draped not at all.
/ source: artcontrarian

Julien Levy :: Frida Kahlo (topless, doing her hair), Mexico, ca. 1938
/ src: Philadelphia Museum of Art

Ilse Hoffmann :: unknown title, 1937 / src: MC on FB

Walter Bird :: “Aphrodite”. Original vintage photoetching, 1938. Signature stamp, verso. Photoetchings are similar to photogravures/relief etchings. Bird and his contemporaries used this technique as a medium for original expression, rather than as a method of reproduction./ src: Liveauctioneers

La danseuse – étude de nu – photographie d’Henri Oltramare – Paris,1900.

Alfred
Cheney Johnston
:: Ziegfeld girl Jean Ackerman nude and draped in beads and cloth,
photograph by Alfred Cheney Johnston, ca. 1927–29. From the Alfred
Cheney Johnston Collection at the Library of Congress
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