images that haunt us
Karl Andreyevich Fischer** :: Mytyl (Alisa Coonen) and Tyltyl (Sofya Khalyutina), in ‘The Blue Bird’. Konstantin Stanislavski’s production of Maurice Maeterlinck’s ‘The Blue Bird ’ at the Moscow Arts Theatre, 1908 / src: NYPL and Wikimedia
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** Photographer’s name on verso of the postcard: “К. Фишер Mockba”
Vintage postcard. Junin, Mendoza, Argentina, 1923 / src
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Geisha Sakae dressing herself in the mirror, a postcard from around 1905 to 1910. / source: Blue Ruin (Flickr)
:: Russian stage actress Maria Germanova as The Witch, in Konstantin Stanislavski’s production
of Maurice Maeterlinck’s play ‘The Blue Bird’, at the Moscow Arts Theatre, 1908. / source: cerca de la cerca and The New York Public Library
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** Photographer’s name on verso of the postcard: “К. Фишер Mockba”
«Lo Hesse was active in Munich and Berlin between 1916 and 1920. Her dances relied heavily on extravagantly exotic costumes designed mostly by the German expressionist artist Walter Schnackenberg.»
Bijin with a Kitten, 1907 / source and high resolution: Blue Ruin
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