Irving Penn :: Marchand de Ballons [Balloons Seller], 1950, printed 1976 [src: Artblart] / via howtoseewithoutacamera
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Joseph Pennell :: Double portrait of two women, one wearing man’s suit, 1898 / via back then, from http://ift.tt/2w0MTEq
Howard’s Studio (Somerville, N.J.) :: Dancer Ruth St. Denis, aged about 16, in Imitation of Paquerette, 1896. | via madivinecomedie and
dantebea | original source Denishawn Collection at NYPL
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Otmar Thormann :: Bird in the Studio, Stockholm, 1983. Gelatin silver print. / via zzzze
Max Munn Autrey :: Pre-code actress Fifi D’Orsay. Fifi is an exciting jazz age cavewoman in this costumed flapper keybook still. Late 1920’s
The press snipe reads: “THE STONE AGE WOMAN may have been a sweet mamma but there can be no doubt about her being a wild one. Here she is, loaded for bear – or should it read ‘bare.’ So far as fashion goes, she’s dressed in skins – we’re not referring to her own! The skirt isn’t much shorter than the skirts one saw until recently, and while the necklace is made of shell it was probably the smartest thing ever shown on Neanderthal City’s ‘Rue de la Paix’ – or Pay, as the stone age husband more likely spelled it. – Posed by Fifi Dorsay, Fox star.”
source: Grapefruit Moon Gallery at eBay
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Walter Bird :: Inspiration, 1938 / via
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Men being affectionate, ca. 1870′s-1880′s / src: Metropolitan Museum of Art via mashable
Chili Williams, born Marian Sorenson, wearing a polka-dot bikini appeared in Life magazine, 1943. Over the next few months she received more than 350,000 fan letters. She quickly became one of the soldiers favorite pin-up girls and was nicknamed ‘The Polka-Dot Girl’. / image and text source: Grapefruit Moon on eBay
Maurice Seymour (studio) ::
Dancers from Chicago’s Silver Frolics Burlesque, ca. 1950′s-1960′s / via
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