
Actress Elli Tompuri, 1910s

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The Metropolitan Opera soprano Yvonne d’Arle, New York, May 16, 1921. / source: Satoshi Hirose

Ferdinando Scianna :: Syracuse, Sicily, Italy, 1987. / src: magnum photos
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John K. Hillers :: Modisi, a moki girl. United States, 1879. Printed on albumen paper. / source: Lumière des Roses

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

Gerhard Riebicke :: Woman in acrobatic pose, late 1930’s
/ src: Live Auctioneers
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