Actress Tallulah Bankhead (1903 – 1968) having a sultry smoke, ca 1930. (Getty Images)
Tag: provocative
Jules Richard :: female Nudes at
L’Atrium, a studio constructed for the purpose of receiving and photographing young women. The Greek theme was employed to give otherwise pornographic images (by the standards of their time) an air of artistic acceptability. Between 1900′s-1920′s / sources: Early French Stereo Nude photography on the domain of Jules Richard and Ignomini
Marlene Dietrich as
Marie Kolverer (X 27)
in Dishonored directed by Josef von Sternberg (1931) / src: IMDB
Nelson Evans :: Five Mack Sennett girls provocatively posed amid serpentine confetti. Winners of the Shoscar for Best Costume. Photo by Evans, L.A. April 1918 | source and hi-res: Shorpy
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