Fernando Natalici
::
Girl with a Gun, Patti Astor, East Village, 1977. Pigment print./ src:
kafkasapartment via
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Tag: staged
George Grantham Bain :: ‘Brox sisters.’ These singing siblings made it big in vaudeville and then on Broadway. From the left, Bobbe, Lorayne and Patricia. Glass negative. NYC, ca.1923 / src: Shorpy
Dancers Lydia Sokolova, Anton Dolin, Bronislava Nijinska, and Leon Woizkowski wear Coco Chanel’s athletic costumes for Le Train Bleu ballet, which aren’t far removed from her innovative and sporty ready-to-wear designs, 1924 (Getty Images, uncredited photographer) / src: pleasurephoto
Cecil Beaton ::
Maya Plisetskaya for
Vogue, April 1, 1964 / src: pleasurephoto
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‘Do ducks swim? Misses Eugenia Dunbar and Mary Moose.’ The main focus here is of course the horse trough, once a common item of street furniture in many big cities. National Photo. Glass negative. April 21, 1927 / src and hi-res: Shorpy
Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz (Witkacy) :: Władysław Jan Grabski, “Monster of Düsseldorf”, 1932
From Witkacy’s collections, one of the most famous of his photographs is the “Monster of Düsseldorf”. It was created in cooperation with Władysław Jan Grabski in 1932 and presented the master in the improvised scene with Janina Turowska. / source: metrowarszawa
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Aside from a few stars like Constance Markievicz [in this photograph], who was second in
command at the rebels’ St. Stephen’s Green outpost in Dublin, or the
schoolteacher turned sniper Margaret Skinnider, most of the estimated
260 women who took part in the 1916 insurrection never found their way
into the history books. Eight women in the Easter Rising, here (source: NYTimes)
Brassaï
:: Picasso posing as the Artist, with Jean Marais as his Model, ca. 1944 / src: iphotocentral
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