Napoleon Sarony – Portrait of Theda Bara,1910

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R. Bruhn- Composition flapper Doll

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R. Bruhn- Composition flapper Doll 1929

R. Bruhn- Composition flapper Doll Carmen the Cigarette Girl 1920

William Mortensen – From the porfolio “Compositions”, studies of the female form , 1938

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William Mortensen – From the porfolio “Compositions”, studies of the female form , 1938

Lucien Clergue- Nue de la vague, 1968.

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« Contemplation of the body of the woman must be a reassuring response to the anguish of the world »
“La contemplation du corps de la femme doit être une réponse rassurante à l’angoisse du monde”
Lucien Clergue

Lucien Clergue-Nue de la vague, 1968.

Lejaren A. Hiller

Publié par Lapetitemelancolie le 10/04/2013

Lejaren Hiller Sr. / Lejaren à Hiller / John Hiller (3 July 1880 – 23 May 1969) was an accomplished American illustrator and photographer.

Born as John Hiller in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, he changed his name to Lejaren à Hiller when he moved from New York City. He studied painting and illustration at the Chicago Art Institute and travelled to Paris where he found work in a number of studios. By the early 1900s his attention turned to photography and he was widely regarded as the « creator of American photographic illustration ».

Hiller was known for dramatically staged tableaux. He would spend considerable time and effort in arranging the set and models, while an assistant took the photograph, making Hiller’s contribution more directorial than photographic. He was more interested in the final result than the means used to achieve it and is remembered for saying:

« If a man wants to strangle his wife and throw her in the kitchen sink, let him do it any way he wants to. If he’s doing it awkwardly, or not the way I’d do it, all right — it’s a good job so long as he gets her into the sink, completely strangled.^«

From 1927-50 Hiller was commissioned by Davis & Geck to produce the prints for a series of historic advertisements entitled “Sutures in Ancient Surgery,” and published in 1944 as “Surgery through the Ages”. Hiller used elaborate costumes, dramatic backdrops and lighting, and had half-clad models posing as patients. The images depicted a broad range from mediaeval and Aztec surgeons, to surgeons from ancient Egypt and India. The collection was widely acclaimed, and in 1937 won the Edward Bok Award for advertising. The originals of this series were donated to the Art Institute of Chicago.

Hiller also created a series of photographic posters for the US Armed Forces during World War II.

See the first article HERE

Lejaren A. Hiller- Woman in Costume, ca. 1920

Lejaren A Hiller Woman in Costume,1920

Lejaren A. Hiller -Semi-Nude Woman in Costume and Pose ca. 1920

Lejaren A. Hiller -Semi-Nude Woman in Costume and Pose ca. 1920

Lejaren A. Hiller -Semi-Nude Woman in Costume and Pose ca. 1920

Lejaren A. Hiller -Semi-Nude Woman in Costume and Pose ca. 1920

Lejaren A. Hiller -Semi-Nude Woman in Costume and Pose ca. 1920

Lejaren A Hiller Semi-Nude Woman In Costume Dancing 1920 positive, gelatin on glass

Lejaren A Hiller Semi-Nude Woman, Man In Costume Dancing 1920 positive, gelatin on glass

Lejaren A. Hiller -Semi-Nude Woman in Costume and Pose ca. 1920

Lejaren A. Hiller -Semi-Nude Woman in Costume and Pose ca. 1920

Lejaren A Hiller Woman in Costume,1920

Lejaren A. Hiller -Semi-Nude Woman in Costume and Pose ca. 1920

Lejaren A. Hiller -Semi-Nude Woman in Costume and Pose ca. 1920

Lejaren A. Hiller -Nude Woman Pose ca. 1920

Lejaren A. Hiller -Semi-Nude Woman in Costume and Pose ca. 1920

Lejaren A. Hiller -Semi-Nude Woman in Costume and Pose ca. 1920

Lejaren A Hiller -Nude Woman ith veil, 1920 positive, gelatin on glass

Lejaren A. Hiller -Semi-Nude Woman in Costume and Pose ca. 1920

Lejaren A. Hiller -Semi-Nude Woman in Costume and Pose ca. 1920

Lejaren A. Hiller -Semi-Nude Woman in Costume and Pose ca. 1920

Lejaren A. Hiller -Semi-Nude Woman in Costume and Pose ca. 1920

Lejaren A. Hiller -Semi-Nude Woman in Costume and Pose ca. 1920

Lejaren A. Hiller -Semi-Nude Woman in Costume and Pose ca. 1920

Lejaren A. Hiller -Semi-Nude Woman in Costume and Pose ca. 1920

Lejaren A. Hiller -Semi-Nude Woman in Costume and Pose ca. 1920

Francesca Woodman (Boulder, Colorodo)

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Francesca Woodman – Untitled (Boulder), (GRAVEYARD)1972-75

Francesca Woodman – Untitled, Boulder, Clolorado, 1972-75

Francesca Woodman, Untitled, Boulder, Colorado, 1972–1975

Francesca Woodman- Untitled ,Boulder, Colorodo , 1972 -75

Francesca Woodman – Untitled (Boulder), 1972-75.

Francesca Woodman – Untitled, Boulder, Clolorado, 1972-75

Francesca Woodman-Untitled,, bouldier,1976 ( From the book Francesca Woodman Providence Roma Nex-yok, ed° Astelvecchi Art)

Francesca Woodman-Untitled,, bouldier,1976 ( From the book Francesca Woodman Providence Roma Nex-yok, ed° Astelvecchi Art)

Francesca Woodman- Untitled ,Boulder, Colorado, 1972-1975

Francesca Woodman- Untitled ,Boulder, Colorado, 1972-1975

Francesca Woodman- Untitled ,Boulder, Colorado, 1972-1975

Francesca Woodman-Untitled,, bouldier,1976 ( From the book Francesca Woodman Providence Roma Nex-yok, ed° Astelvecchi Art)

Francesca Woodman- Untitled ,Boulder, Colorado, 1972-1975

Francesca Woodman- Untitled. Boulder Colorado, 1972-1975

Francesca Woodman- Untitled.Boulder Colorado, 1972-1975

Francesca Woodman- Untitled.Boulder Colorado, 1972-1975

Francesca Woodman-Me and my roomate, bouldier,1976 ( From the book Francesca Woodman Providence Roma Nex-yok, ed° Astelvecchi Art)

Francesca Woodman-Self-portrait at 13, Boulder, Colorado 1972

Francesca Woodman-Untitled (Bugs Diptych), 1976-77 ( Galerie Robert Klein)

It must be time for lunch now By Francesca Woodman

Francesca Woodman- Untitled ,Boulder, Colorado, 1972-1975 ( Galerie Marian Goodman)

Francesca Woodman- Untitled (Boulder, Colorodo) , 1972 -75

Francesca Woodman bouldier,1974-75 ( From the bookFrancesca Woodman Providence Roma Nex-yok, ed° Astelvecchi Art)

Francesca Woodman bouldier,1974-75 ( From the book Francesca Woodman Providence Roma Nex-yok, ed° Astelvecchi Art)

Grundworth

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Grundworth- Pin-up nude Nylon Strümpfe stockings, 1915

Count Théodore Zichy- (1908 – 1983)

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Count Theodore Béla Rudolf Zichy de Zich et Vásonkeő (Hungarian: Zichi és Vásonkeői gróf Zichy Tivadar Béla Rudolf; 13 June 1908 – December 1987) was a British actor, photographer, film director, producer and playboy of Hungarian descent.

Early life

Born in Eastbourne in Sussex in 1908, the son of Count Béla Mária Rudolf Zichy de Zich et Vásonkeő (1868-1944), a Hungarian aristocrat, and an American mother, Mabel Elizabeth Wright (1865-1926),^[2] His brother was Edward George Béla Mária Zichy de Zich et Vásonkeő (1898-1958). A great-nephew of Mihály Zichy, Theodore Zichy held British and Hungarian citizenship.

Career

In 1928, he started racing Bugattis, which he continued on and off until 1932.

As a photographer he mainly took pictures of women’s legs, feet and shoes. His 1948 photograph portfolio Chiaroscuros (from the Italian « chiaroscuro ») contained images of foot and shoe fetishism. In the mid-1950s he worked as a photographer for Baron Studios in London. His autobiography That Was No Gentleman, That Was Zichy was published in 1974

Count Theodore Zichy Chiaroscuros , Circa 1940 Silver prints

Film career

As an actor Zichy appeared as 2nd in Command in Gasbags (1941), Colonel Borg in The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (1943), as the Duel Referee in the TV movie Liebelei (1954), and as a German Agent in Private’s Progress (1956).

Later, he directed and produced the shorts Death Was a Passenger (1958), Portrait of a Matador (1958) and Mingaloo (1958), also writing the latter, as well as directing and producing the films Night Without Pity (1961) and Doomsday at Eleven (1963). He produced the film Bomb in the High Street (1961).

Personal life

On 20 February 1928, he married Xenia V. Howard Johnston (1904-1931) in Paris, France; the couple divorced in 1930.

In 1964, he married Daphne Barker (previously of Jack and Daphne Barker Cabaret duo) in London and stayed married to her until her death in 1987.

Count Theodore Zichy committed suicide in London in December, 1987. However his death certificate was only issued in 1988.

Count Theodore Zichy Untitled Woman’s legs and crutch, 1948

Count Theodore Zichy- Untitled ‘ Plus çà change, plus c’est la même chose’ alphonse Karr ,1948

Cont Theodore Zichy – I will be correspondent to command, And do my , 1949

Count Theodore Zichy- Plus ”Extinctus amabitur idem” Latin provers,1948

Count Theodore Zichy -i’m a woman may, a woman wrong’d, And when our sex from injuries take fire, Our softness turns to fury- ans our thoughts Breathe veangeange and destruction, 1948

Count Theodore Zichy- Untitled-, a che Vuole, non Mancano modi, italian proverb, 1948

Count Theodore Zichy -,Il est faux que l’égalité soit une loi de la nature. La nature n’ait rien fait égal. Vauvenargues, nd

Count Theodore ZichyGirl in front of Fireplace,1948

Count Theodore Zichy – Chiaroscuros #11, Londres 1940

Count Theodore Zichy ~Chiaroscuros #1,1948

Count Theodore Zichy- Chiaroscuros #13, Londres 1948

Count Theodore Zichy- Chiaroscuros #10, Londres 1948

Count Theodore Zichy -Chiaroscuros #05 , 1948_e

Count Theodore Zichy Legs 1948

Count Theodore Zichy – Legs with dagger, Chiaroscuros #12, Londres 1948

Count Theodore Zichy- Chiaroscuros #10, Londres 1948

Count Theodore Zichy – Legs with dagger, Chiaroscuros #2, Londres 1948

Count Theodore Zichy – Chiaroscuros #20, Londres 1948

Count Theodore Zichy Legs , Circa 1948

Count Zichy Kayser Nylons, 1940’s,

Count Theodore Zichy – Legs, untitled,1948

Count Theodore Zichy Cupid And Shoes , Circa 1940

Count Theodore Zichy- Britian, 1948

Count Theodore Zichy – Untitled, 1948. [ Plus çà change, plus c’est la même chose //The more things change, the more they stay the same – Alphonse Karr]

Source Louminous

Source Mutual Art

Source Air de Paris

More of his work in the Baron Studio

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That was no gentleman, that was Zichy Theodore Zichy Published by Polybooks 1974

Pierre Molinier représenté

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Alain D- Pierre Molinier mordant la fesse de Claire,Bourg-de-Gironde en 1973{ from Molinier aux Presses du réel}

Pierre Molinier tirant au pistolet-Photo prise par un proche dans la propriété que Molinier possédait près de Bordeaux au moment où il préparait son exposition à Paris, à L’Etoile Scellée, à la demande d’André Breton,1955

Alfred Cheney Johnston- Renée Adorée

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Alfred Cheney Johnston- Renée Adorée Nude and parrot, 1930

Alfred Cheney Johnston (1884-1971) Renee' Adoree, 1930

Alfred Cheney Johnston Renee’ Adoree, 1930

Underwood & Underwood Studio -Roshanara (Olive Craddock) with her luxurious hair ,1910-15.

Publié par Lapetitemelancolie le 07/04/2013

Underwood & Underwood Studio -Roshanara ( Olive Craddock) with her luxurious hair , 1910-15 .
[She danced with Loie Fuller’s company and in 1911 and She joined Anna Pavlova’s company in 1912)

More works Underwood & Underwood Studio HERE