
Woman Lighting a Cigarette, ca.1920s. / src
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Kyuzo Okamoto :: Geiko Yachiyo with an Insect Cage, vintage postcard, 1910
Insects as pets. Yachiyo was a famous Osaka geiko (geisha), known for her elegance and her lovely personality. People were said to weep with joy at the sight of her dancing. She joined the flower and willow world at the age of thirteen, left to marry at the age of twenty-nine. / source: Blue Ruin

Kati Horna :: Mujer y máscara [Woman with Mask], Mexico, 1963. Gelatin silver print. / source: michael hoppen gallery
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Lajos Szabó :: Geschickte Hände / Skilled Hands, ca. 1937 / source: Lempertz

Olive Cotton :: ‘Only to taste the warmth, the light, the wind’, circa 1939 / source: artgallery.nsw.gov.au
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