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Lilliput Annual 1940 comparisons

The Lilliput Annual 1940 comparisons [src design observer]
1) Rhythmical gymnasts. Photograph: Keystone / Throwing a Mills bomb. Photograph: Topical
2) Calf’s eye. Photograph: Ylla (Camilla Koffler) / Girl’s eye. Photograph: Dorien Leigh
3) Australian / Australian. Photographs: Central Press
4) Man’s idea of the human body / Nature’s idea of the human body. Photographs: uncredited
5) Stone heads unearthed in Mexico. Photograph: Wide World / Baseball player: Photograph: Keystone
6) Penelope Dudley-Ward and Flora Robson. Photographs: Angus McBean

Nude (Ylla) by Nora Dumas

Nora Dumas :: Female nude. 1933-1934. Vintage gelatin silver print. Photographer’s 54, rue Lhomond, Paris (5e) stamp and annotated in pencil on the verso. | src LiveAuctioneers

Dumas worked as an assistant in the studio of the Hungarian photographer Ergy Landau before opening the studio Dumas-Satigny. Landau and Dumas continued working together with Hungarian photographer Ylla [born Kamilla Koffler] who posed as a model for both photographers, as in this image.