Tag: owl

Screech owl by George Shiras

George Shiras 3rd :: Little screech owl. Published in Hunting wild life with camera and flashlight : a record of sixty-five years’ visits to the woods and waters of North America. Volume II, National Geographic Society, 1935. | src Memorial University of Newfoundland
George Shiras 3rd :: Little screech owl. Published in Hunting wild life with camera and flashlight : a record of sixty-five years’ visits to the woods and waters of North America. Volume II, National Geographic Society, 1935. | src Memorial University of Newfoundland
George Shiras 3rd :: Little screech owl. Published in Hunting wild life with camera and flashlight : a record of sixty-five years’ visits to the woods and waters of North America. Volume II, National Geographic Society, 1935. | src Memorial University of Newfoundland
George Shiras 3rd :: Little screech owl. Published in Hunting wild life with camera and flashlight : a record of sixty-five years’ visits to the woods and waters of North America. Volume I, National Geographic Society, 1935. | src Memorial University of Newfoundland
George Shiras 3rd :: Little screech owl. “Driven from shelter, he glares at the world.”

“Routed from its retreat among leaves and Spanish moss, this little screech owl sits blinking in the sun. Many persons formerly believed his species harmless to other birds, but investigation proved that it is destructive to several small kinds.”

George Shiras 3rd :: Little screech owl. Published in Hunting wild life with camera and flashlight : a record of sixty-five years’ visits to the woods and waters of North America. Volume II, National Geographic Society, 1935. | src Memorial University of Newfoundland
George Shiras 3rd :: Little screech owl. Published in Hunting wild life with camera and flashlight : a record of sixty-five years’ visits to the woods and waters of North America. Volume II, National Geographic Society, 1935. | src Memorial University of Newfoundland

Leonor Fini in owl mask, ca. 1949

André Ostier :: Leonor Fini wearing a ball costume and the famous mask of a Snowy Owl, ca. 1949. | src stephen ellcock
André Ostier :: Leonor Fini wearing a ball costume and the famous mask of a Snowy Owl, ca. 1949. | src stephen ellcock
André Ostier :: Leonor Fini wearing a ball costume and the famous mask of a Snowy Owl, ca. 1949. | src stephen ellcock
André Ostier :: Leonor Fini wearing a ball costume and the famous mask of a Snowy Owl, ca. 1949. | src stephen ellcock

Fini’s owl mask originates with the New Year’s Eve party called the Bal des Oiseaux given at the Palais Rose on the avenue Foch, Paris, by Vicomte Charles Benoist d’Azy at the end of 1948. Webb writes, “she wore an owl mask of white feathers with headdress and gown of black-and-green-striped feathers. A series of dramatic photographs of her in this costume, as well as in the costumes for other balls of 1947 and 1948, were taken by Andre Ostier and widely published in newspapers and magazines, and Pauline Reage used the same mask in the final scene of her erotic novel Histoire d’O (Story of O), which was later illustrated by Leonor.”

Quotation from Peter Webb’s biography: Sphinx – The Life and Art of Leonor Fini

Retrieved from Story of O