
The Half Naked Truth.
Italian postcard by Cecami, no. 118. / src Flickr via
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images that haunt us
David Seymour :: Italian actress Sophia Loren, 1955 | via aintthatakick

Clarence Sinclair Bull :: Greta Garbo in Mata Hari, directed by George Fitzmaurice, 1931 (Getty Images) / source: vumag.pl and GettyImages

Vintage sexy pin-up photograph of silent film vamp Dorothy Revier being served up to viewers on a platter. A tantalizing portrait of the actress for her film Sinner’s Parade (1928)
On dorso: Culver Pictures Inc., NY. The press snipe reads: “A DISH FIT FOR A KING … Dorothy Revier is the star attraction of the night club in Columbia’s SINNERS’ PARADE.” source

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

Gene Kornman :: Dixie Dunbar, 1936. Photo publicity for the film ‘One in a Million’ (20th Century Fox) / src: eBay

Len Prince ::
Untitled, plate 37, NYC, 2003, from the series “Self-possessed”. Model: Jessie Mann / src: edelman-gallery
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Woman smoking, France, ca. 1940. Unknown photographer / src: Lumière des Roses