Tag: unknown photographer

Balloon being carried on barge during World War I

With the outbreak of the first world war Switzerland was faced with confusing events – and therefore used captive balloons for clarification. Here on Lake Biel. Image: Swiss Photo Foundation
From: Switzerland and the great war “14/18 – Switzerland and the Great War” in the Zurich State Museum. | src Tages Anzeiger: https://www.tagesanzeiger.ch/kultur/Zerruettung-des-verschonten-Landes-/story/17621214

French vintage postcard

Vintage French postcard. Unknown photographer. Stamped PC Paris on verso. Sometimes credited as Julien Mandel’s.

Nude study, ca. 1930

Anonyme Etude de nu, vers 1930 | Nude study by anonymous photographer, ca. 1930 | src yann le mouel

Mura Ziperowitsch, 1920s

Mura Ziperowitsch, Wien, 1920er Jahre, Foto Anonym, O. J. (Anonymous photographer) | src Alles tanzt Ausstellung @ Theatermuseum © KHM-Museumsverband

Role models. Many female dancers dealt with given role structures and criticized gender specific role attributions. The nun is seen as embodiment of a nonsexual woman who dedicates her life to God. Hence the play with the nun’s costume is a game with female physicality and sexuality. Here we meet Mura Ziperowitsch, who by wearing a nun similar costume refers to the female corporality.

source Vienna Pride at Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien

Photo Song Postcard, ‘Dreaming’, 1908

Photo Song Postcard, “Dreaming”. Postcard addressed to Mamie Collins in Central City, Nebraska with a photograph of a woman in a dress, holding an umbrella and sitting on the bottom step on a porch staircase; there are music notes and lyrics printed at the bottom of the card that read: “Still I’m always Dreaming love of you.” | src Texas History

Rosalia Chladek, 1925

Rosalia Chladek im Vorraum zum Festsaal der Schule Hellerau für Rhythmus, Musik und Körperbildung, Dresden, 1925. | Rosalia Chladek in the anteroom to the festival hall of the Hellerau School for Rhythm, Music and Physical Education, Dresden, 1925. | src and hi-res Theatermuseum, Wien