Unknown photographer

Unknown photographer. Seated nude 1926

Unknown photographer

Unknown photographer. Back view of a reclining woman 1926.

Hugo Erfurth

Hugo Erfurth. Nude study 1903

Alfred Schneider

Alfred Schneider. Seated woman 1904.

Curtis Moffatt

Curtis Moffatt. Woman refreshing under fountain 1925.

Man Ray

Man Ray. Dancer accompanies herself with her Shadows 1919.

Nikolai Ivanovich Svishtov

Nikolai Ivanovich Svishtov. Women embracing 1920s

Man Ray

Man Ray. Adrienne Fidelin with washboard 1937

Cecil Beaton

Cecil Beaton. Paula Gellibrand, Marquise de Casa Maury 1928.

Cecil Beaton

Cecil Beaton. Paula Gellibrand, Marquise de Casa Maury 1928.

Cecil Beaton

Cecil Beaton. Paula Gellibrand, Marquise de Casa Maury 1928.

Cecil Beaton. Paula Gellibrand, Marquise de Casa Maury 1928.

Cecil Beaton. Paula Gellibrand, Marquise de Casa Maury 1928.

Man Ray

Man Ray. Dora Maar 1936

Man Ray. Dora Maar 1936

Man Ray. Dora Maar 1936

Pierre-Louis Pierson

Pierre-Louis Pierson. Comtesse de Castiglione 1860s

Pierre-Louis Pierson. Comtesse de Castiglione 1860s.


Born into the Italian aristocracy, the Countess of Castiglione experienced the hustle and bustle of imperial festivities and the splendor of the Tuileries court, where she was, for a few seasons, one of the most dazzling and boisterous meteors.
Halfway between the world of aristocracy and that of gallantry, she was both idolized and reviled, a socialite and a recluse, the object of all eyes and the secret photographer of her life.
Like in a fairy tale, Virginia Oldoini, Countess of Castiglione, arrived in Paris on Christmas Eve 1855, at just 18 years old.
She left behind the court of Turin and a rather conventional milieu for a cosmopolitan Paris, the capital of fashion and pleasure. On the instructions of her cousin Camillo Cavour, minister to the King of Piedmont, Victor Emmanuel, she was sent to plead the cause of Italian unity with Napoleon III, who was sensitive to the eloquence of feminine charms. Keeping in mind the letter Cavour had sent her: « Succeed, my cousin, by whatever means you please, but succeed, » she was ready to launch herself into the glittering whirlwind of the Second Empire.

Ernest Cormier

Ernest Cormier. Clorinthe or Cecile Perron posing in Ernest Cormier’s workshop 1923

Man Ray

Man Ray. The French Cancan dancer Lydia 1932

Man Ray. The French Cancan dancer Lydia 1932

Man Ray. The French Cancan dancer Lydia 1932

Herbert Matter

Herbert Matter. Mercedes Matter, multiple exposures 1938

Ernest Cormier

Ernest Cormier. Cecile Perron holding a cigarette 1920-1935

Ernest Cormier. Cecile Perron holding a cigarette 1920-1935

Ernest Cormier

Ernest Cormier. Clorinthe Perron posing in Ernest Cormier’s workshop 1920-1935

Ernest Cormier. Clorinthe Perron posing in Ernest Cormier’s workshop 1920-1935

Ernest Cormier. Clorinthe Perron posing in Ernest Cormier’s workshop 1920-1935

Ernest Cormier. Clorinthe Perron posing in Ernest Cormier’s workshop 1920-1935

Ernest Cormier. Clorinthe Perron posing in Ernest Cormier’s workshop 1920-1935

Ernest Cormier. Clorinthe Perron posing in Ernest Cormier’s workshop 1920-1935

Ernest Cormier. Clorinthe Perron posing in Ernest Cormier’s workshop 1920-1935

Ernest Cormier. Clorinthe Perron posing in Ernest Cormier’s workshop 1920-1935

Zionist boat people

Time to give back Palestine to Palestinians! The Jewish refugees should have been grateful and humble for the welcome!
The territories occupied by the Zionists must be denuclearized

Following World War II, many Holocaust survivors sought to emigrate clandestinely from Europe to Palestine, then under British rule. The British restricted Jewish immigration to Palestine to avoid tensions with the Arab population.

Ernest Cormier

Ernest Cormier. Cecile Perron posing in Ernest Cormier’s workshop 1925

Ernest Cormier. Cecile Perron posing in Ernest Cormier’s workshop 1925

Ernest Cormier. Cecile Perron posing in Ernest Cormier’s workshop 1925

Ernest Cormier. Cecile Perron posing in Ernest Cormier’s workshop 1925

Ernest Cormier. Cecile Perron posing in Ernest Cormier’s workshop 1925

Ernest Cormier. Cecile Perron posing in Ernest Cormier’s workshop 1925

Ernest Cormier

Ernest Cormier. Clorinthe and Cecile Perron 1920-1930

Ernest Cormier

Ernest Cormier. Clorinthe Perron posing in Ernest Cormier’s workshop 1923

Ernest Cormier. Clorinthe Perron posing in Ernest Cormier’s workshop 1923

Ernest Cormier. Clorinthe Perron posing in Ernest Cormier’s workshop 1923

Ernest Cormier. Clorinthe Perron posing in Ernest Cormier’s workshop 1923

Ernest Cormier. Clorinthe Perron posing in Ernest Cormier’s workshop 1923

Ernest Cormier

Ernest Cormier. Clorinthe or Cecile Perron 1920-1940

Ernest Cormier. Clorinthe or Cecile Perron 1920-1940

Ernest Cormier

Ernest Cormier. Cecile Perron in Ernest Cormier’s workshop 1925

Ernest Cormier. Cecile Perron in Ernest Cormier’s workshop 1925

Ernest Cormier

Ernest Cormier. Portrait of Clorinthe Perron 1922-1940

Ernest Cormier. Portrait of Clorinthe Perron 1922-1940

Ernest Cormier. Portrait of Clorinthe Perron 1922-1940

Anton Bruehl

Anton Bruehl. Fashion photography 1937

Ernest Cormier

Ernest Cormier. Clorinthe Perron posing with a hoop 1923

Ernest Cormier. Clorinthe Perron posing with a hoop 1923

Ernest Cormier. Clorinthe Perron posing with a hoop 1923

Ernest Cormier. Clorinthe Perron posing with a hoop 1923

Ernest Cormier. Clorinthe Perron posing with a hoop 1923

Ernest Cormier. Clorinthe Perron posing with a hoop 1923

Ernest Cormier. Clorinthe Perron posing with a hoop 1923

Ernest Cormier. Clorinthe Perron posing with a hoop 1923

Ernest Cormier. Clorinthe Perron posing with a hoop 1923

Ernest Cormier. Clorinthe Perron posing with a hoop 1923

Anton Bruehl

Anton Bruehl. Resting model 1935

Anton Bruehl

Anton Bruehl. Reclining woman holding a cigarette 1930-1940

Wilhelm Tobein

Wilhelm Tobein. Young women in bathing suits, Germany 1928. Autochrome

Louis Lumière

Louis Lumière. Bathers 1910. Autochrome

Carlo Wulz

Marion Wulz. Wanda Wulz in Egyptian costume 1930

Marion Wulz. Wanda Wulz in Egyptian costume 1930

Marion Wulz

Marion Wulz. Portrait of Wanda Wulz in the mirror 1950

Carlo Wulz

Carlo Wulz. Wanda Wulz with fan 1927

Carlo Wulz

Carlo Wulz. Wanda and Marion Wulz with a friend reading 1920

Philippe Halsman

Philippe Halsman. Salvador Dali in the fetal position 1942.
Following Dali’s statements about his memories of his prenatal life, Halsman photographed the painter « like an embryo in an egg, » in the fetal position on white sheets. Halsman then retouched the negative to give the illusion of nudity and superimposed the resulting image with a photograph of an egg.

Philippe Halsman

Philippe Halsman. Jean Cocteau, The final touch, New-York 1949

Philippe Halsman’s assignment was to capture on camera what goes on “inside a poet’s mind,” for a three-page photo essay commissioned by LIFE Magazine, coinciding with the US release of Cocteau’s movie The eagle with two heads. No stranger to the caprices of avant-garde artists – in 1941, Halsman began his famous 37-year-long collaboration and friendship with Salvador Dali – the photographer had assembled an idiosyncratic array of props for The Frivolous Prince (a moniker the writer gained in the Bohemian artistic circles he mixed in, and the title of a volume he published at twenty-two), including a live boa constrictor and a dozen trained doves. The dancer Leo Coleman was also part of the entourage, alongside a “girl with a classically beautiful face” and a “classically perfect body”: Enrica Soma, a 19-year-old model and prima ballerina who had appeared on the cover of LIFE herself in 1947, where she was spotted by the filmmaker John Huston. She became his fourth wife in 1950.

Franz Otto Koch

Franz Otto Koch. The dancer Nina Payne in The nightgown dance 1910

Franz Otto Koch

Franz Otto Koch. Woman with long hair 1910

Frank Eugene

Frank Eugene. The cake walk 1900

Emil Otto Hoppé

Emil Otto Hoppé. Eileen Hawthorne 1923

Erwin Blumenfeld

Erwin Blumenfeld. Blurred sitting nude 1944

Sasha (Alexander Stewart)

Sasha (Alexander Stewart). The writer and actress Anita Loos 1931

Sasha (Alexander Stewart)

Sasha (Alexander Stewart). The dancer Tilly Losch with the shadow of Roman Jasinski in « L’errante », choreography by George Balanchine, dress by Molyneux 1933

Man Ray

Man Ray. The actress Rose Wheeler 1930

Man Ray

Man Ray. The French Cancan dancer Lydia and model 1932

Man Ray. The French Cancan dancer Lydia and model 1932

Man Ray. The French Cancan dancer Lydia and model 1932

Man Ray. The French Cancan dancer Lydia and model 1932

Man Ray

Man Ray. Solarized portrait of the actress Rose Wheeler 1930

Man Ray

Man Ray. The actress Rose Wheeler with a tchador 1930

Man Ray. The actress Rose Wheeler with a tchador 1930

Aurel Bauh

Aurel Bauh. Photogram 1931

Aurel Bauh

Aurel Bauh. Vision 1930

Alfred Cheney Johnston

Alfred Cheney Johnston. The silent movie star Martha Mansfield 1923

Madame d’Ora

Madame d’Ora. The bowl by the Bodenwieser’s school of dance 1931

Man Ray

Man Ray. Fashion photography, unknown model 1925

Man Ray

Man Ray. Triple portrait of the actress Rose Wheeler 1926

Man Ray. Triple portrait of the actress Rose Wheeler 1926

Man Ray

Man Ray. From the serie Fashion in the Congo 1937

Man Ray. From the serie Fashion in the Congo 1937

Man Ray. From the serie Fashion in the Congo 1937

Man Ray. From the serie Fashion in the Congo 1937

Man Ray. From the serie Fashion in the Congo 1937

Man Ray

Man Ray. The dancer Valeska Gert 1925

Man Ray. The dancer Valeska Gert 1925

Man Ray. The dancer Valeska Gert 1925

Man Ray. The dancer Valeska Gert 1925

Lucien Walery

Margaretha Geertruida Zelle, known as Grietje Zelle, also known as Mata Hari, was a Dutch dancer and courtesan, born on 7 August 1876 in Leeuwarden and executed on 15 October 1917 in Vincennes. She was shot for espionage during the First World War.

Lucien Walery. Mata Hari performing the Dance of the seven veils 1906.

Lucien Walery. Mata Hari performing the Dance of the seven veils 1906.

Brassaï

Brassaï. Publicity photo shooting for Diana Slip 1933

Alvin Langdon Coburn

Alvin Langdon Coburn. Elsie Thomas in an Eastern costume sitting on a hammock 1908. Autochrome

Alvin Langdon Coburn

Alvin Langdon Coburn. Woman wearing a kimono holding a sunflower 1908. Autochrome

Alvin Langdon Coburn

Alvin Langdon Coburn. The dancer Michio Ito 1913.
Michio Itō (April 13, 1893 – November 6, 1961) was a Japanese dancer and choreographer; he worked in association with William Butler Yeats, Ezra Pound, Angna Enters, Isamu Noguchi, Louis Horst, Ted Shawn, Martha Graham, Lillian Powell, Vladimir Rosing, Pauline Koner, Lester Horton, and other American artists. He was interned as a Japanese American and eventually deported from the United States after the outbreak of World War II.

Lehnert and Landrock

Lehnert and Landrock. Oriantalist nude 1900-1910

Baron Wilhelm von Gloeden

Baron Wilhelm von Gloeden. Reclining woman 1895

Baron Wilhelm von Gloeden

Baron Wilhelm von Gloeden. Reclining woman 1895

Baron Wilhelm von Gloeden

Baron Wilhelm von Gloeden. Nude study in outdoor 1895

Baron Wilhelm von Gloeden

Baron Wilhelm von Gloeden. Nude study in outdoor 1895

Baron Wilhelm von Gloeden

Baron Wilhelm von Gloeden. Nude study in outdoor 1895

Baron Wilhelm von Gloeden

Baron Wilhelm von Gloeden. Nude study 1895

Baron Wilhelm von Gloeden

Baron Wilhelm von Gloeden. Nude study in outdoor 1895

Baron Wilhelm von Gloeden. Nude study in outdoor 1895

Baron Wilhelm von Gloeden. Nude study in outdoor 1895

Baron Wilhelm von Gloeden

Baron Wilhelm von Gloeden. Young man holding a Greek vase with a young girl 1901

Baron Wilhelm von Gloeden. Young man holding a Greek vase with a young girl 1901

Baron Wilhelm von Gloeden. Young man holding a Greek vase with a young girl 1901

Baron Wilhelm von Gloeden. Young man holding a Greek vase with a young girl 1901

Baron Wilhelm von Gloeden

Baron Wilhelm von Gloeden. Portrait of a young woman 1890

Baron Wilhelm von Gloeden. Portrait of a young woman 1890

Baron Wilhelm von Gloeden. Portrait of a young woman 1890

Pierre Delbo

Pierre Delbo. Marie Vassilieff’s doll 1927

Pierre Delbo. Marie Vassilieff’s dolls 1927

The French-Russian artist Marie Vassilieff, active in Paris between the wars, created puppets representing many famous artists of the School of Paris during the interwar period, many of which were presented at several exhibitions, often organized by her patron, the French fashion designer Paul Poiret (1879-1944). She created a new genre of portrait sculpture, which served as effigies, souvenirs, and decorative objects for the Parisian avant-garde of the interwar period. Her portraits dolls are part of the history of avant-garde marionettes and puppets, used notably in the shows of Sophie Taeuber-Arp and Hannah Höch, but also responded to an interest.

Unknown photographer

Gala, born Elena Ivanovna Diakonova on September 7, 1894, in Kazan (Russian Empire) and died on June 10, 1982, in Portlligat (Spain), was a Russian figure known for having been successively the wife of Paul Éluard, the lover of Max Ernst, and finally the wife and muse of Salvador Dalí.

Unknown photographer. Gala 1920s

Unknown photographer. Gala 1920s

Unknown photographer. Gala 1920s

Unknown photographer. Gala 1920s

Man Ray

Man Ray. Nush Éluard 1935

Man Ray. Nush Éluard 1935

Alexander Binder

Alexander Binder. The actress Fern Andra smoking 1910

Marcel Bovis

Marcel Bovis. Still life with shell 1935

Alexander Binder

Alexander Binder. Student Dora Zuntz as Nefertiti at the Berlin Arts and Crafts Ball Bunte Laterne 1927

Unknown photographer

Unknown photographer. Eva 1930-1940

Jeanne Mandello

Jeanne Mandello. Photogram 1950

Dr Max Thorek

Dr Max Thorek. Terpsichore (muse of dance) 1920s

Dr Max Thorek

Dr Max Thorek. Striking study of harpist 1936

Dr Max Thorek

Dr Max Thorek. Occult dance 1942

Unknown photographer

Unknown photographer. A Parisian family sitting on rocks, Etretat, France 1920. Autochrome

Alexander Binder

Alexander Binder. The actress Lili Damita with fan 1928

Alexander Binder

Alexander Binder. The actress Truus van Aalten and swam 1920s

Unknown photographer

Unknown photographer. Young girl from the Parisian bourgeoisie near a rosebush, Jardin de Bagatelle, Paris 1920. Autochrome

André Kertész

André Kertész. The writer and actress Colette 1930

Atelier Badekow

Atelier Badekow. The dancers Katta Sterna and her sister Maria Solveg, Berlin 1920

Violet Keene Perinchief

Violet Keene Perinchief. Pomegranates 1910

Violet Keene Perinchief

Violet Keene Perinchief . Diana Boone 1940

Martin Badekow

Martin Badekow. The dancer Katta Sterna, Berlin 1925

Erwin Blumenfeld

Erwin Blumenfeld. Lady with a camellia, Vogue 1943

Unknown photographer

Unknown photographer. Native American Indian 1910, Arizona. Autochrome

Unknown photographer

Unknown photographer. Seated woman dressed in a oriental style 1910. Autochrome

Etheldreda Janet Laing

Etheldreda Janet Laing. Janet Laing holding a parasol 1908. Autochrome

Jules Gervais-Courtellemont

Jules Gervais-Courtellemont. Young woman from the Bethmale valley in festive costume, Ariège, France. Autochrome 1910

Jules Gervais-Courtellemont

Jules Gervais-Courtellemont. Seated Turkish women 1908. Autochrome

Jules Gervais-Courtellemont

Jules Gervais-Courtellemont. Veiled Turkish women 1908. Autochrome

Jules Gervais-Courtellemont

Jules Gervais-Courtellemont. Woman of Bethlehem in ancient costume 1908. Autochrome

Jules Gervais-Courtellemont

Jules Gervais-Courtellemont. Woman wearing an oriental costume 1908. Autochrome

Jules Gervais-Courtellemont. Woman wearing an oriental costume 1908. Autochrome