Olympic swimmer dancing

Underwood & Underwood ~ Olympic champion swimmer Martha Norelius in a dance pose, May 1925 | src worthpoint
Reverse of the press photograph above, with credit stamps and snippet

Vintage bathers

J. Mandel ~ Jolie Baigneuse. French vintage postcard. Alfred Noyer stamp, numbered 405. | src eBay
Bather / swimmer training for the Olympic games in the lake in the Arboretum park, Los Angeles, 1932
General Picture News. January 5th, 1932 | src Drouot ~ Photographies de Presse

‘Swimmers’ toned cyanotypes

Rosalind Hobley :: Swimmer. Cyanotype print toned in tea and coffee. | Rosalind Hobley Facebook page
Rosalind Hobley :: Swimmer. Cyanotype print toned in tea and coffee. | Rosalind Hobley Facebook page
Rosalind Hobley :: Swimmer. Cyanotype print toned in tea and coffee. | Rosalind Hobley Facebook page
Rosalind Hobley :: Swimmer. Cyanotype print toned in tea and coffee. | Rosalind Hobley Facebook page
Rosalind Hobley :: Swimmer portrait. From Swimmers series, 2019-2020. Cyanotype toned with tea and coffee. | Rosalind Hobley Facebook page
Rosalind Hobley :: Swimmer portrait. From Swimmers series, 2019-2020. Cyanotype toned with tea and coffee. | Rosalind Hobley Facebook page
Rosalind Hobley :: Swimmer VIII. From Swimmers series, 2019-2020. Cyanotype. | Rosalind Hobley official website

Swimmers series by R. Hobley

Rosalind Hobley :: From Swimmers series, 2019-2020. Cyanotype. | Rosalind Hobley official website
Rosalind Hobley :: From Swimmers series, 2019-2020. Cyanotype. | Rosalind Hobley official website
Rosalind Hobley :: Cherry in Freefall. From Swimmers series, 2019-2020 | Rosalind Hobley official website
Rosalind Hobley :: Cherry in Freefall. From Swimmers series, 2019-2020. Cyanotype. | Rosalind Hobley official website
Rosalind Hobley :: Swimmer VIII. From Swimmers series, 2019-2020 | Rosalind Hobley official website
Rosalind Hobley :: Swimmer VIII. From Swimmers series, 2019-2020. Cyanotype. | Rosalind Hobley official website
Rosalind Hobley :: Swimmer portrait. From Swimmers series, 2019-2020. Cyanotype toned with tea and coffee. | Rosalind Hobley on Fb

Hobley shot these series before the Covid-19 pandemic. Later, during the lock-down she experimented with different kind of papers, developing processes and toning. The last one of this post is a cyanotype print toned in tea and coffee: “This photograph was taken on a shoot last year and printed using a large format negative and sunlight, during the lockdown.” quoted from Hobley’s Facebook page

Olympic Swimmer, 1920

Francis Scott Clark :: Olympic Swimmer Frances Cowells Schroth, silver print, 1920. | src Swann Galleries, Sale 2426, Lot 331
Frances C. Schroth, 7/28/1920. Glass negative. Bain News Service (publisher). | src George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress)

Learning to swim, 1934-1935

Reg Speller :: Swimming lesson for youngsters at Brighton, August 20th, 1934. (Fox Photos) | src Getty Images
Reg Speller :: Swimming Moves. Swimmers from the Rosemand school in Littlehampton practice their swimming technique on the beach, 22nd July 1935. (Fox Photos) | src Getty Images

Dangers, Lilliput, Aug. 1941

Lilliput comparison from August 1941 issue. Lilliput Pocket Omnibus (aka Lilliput: The Pocket Magazine for Everyone) which was a pocket-sized monthly magazine produced by Stefan Lorant, Hungarian photojournalist, author, and filmmaker who had served time in a Nazi prison. The magazine was known for Lorant’s juxtapositions of images for political or aesthetic effects. | source Flickr

Swimmer & moonlight, 2018-19

Paul Cupido ~ Luna II, 2019. Hand-made Toyobo Chine-collé print on Mitsumata Washi paper. | src The Photographer’s Gallery
Paul Cupido ~ Clair de Lune, 2018 © Paul Cupido | src Lensculture : A Symphony of Images
Paul Cupido ~ Solandes , 2018 © Paul Cupido | src Lensculture : A Symphony of Images

Dora Woolard, 1913

Dora Woolard. The 14 April, 1913 issue of The San Francisco Call carried an item on a vaudeville show, “At the Empress Theater this week are the Diving Girls, Dora Woolard and Laura Murray, two charming swimers, assisted by Mme. Barlo, oldest lady swimmer” | src gt_hawk63 on Flickr

Annette Kellerman, 1916

Hand-tinted publicity image of Kellerman. Annette Kellerman says she never needed a stunt double in any of her films. She also talks about her infamous swim in a pool full of crocodiles on the shoot for the silent feature A Daughter of the Gods (Herbert Brenon, USA, 1916). The Bill Fox she refers to is film’s producer William Fox. Link to interview from 1974, here. | src NFSA