Horst P. Horst

Horst P. Horst. Odalisque 1943

Horst P. Horst

Horst P. Horst. Odalisque 1943

Horst P. Horst

Horst P. Horst. Odalisque 1943

Horst P. Horst

Horst P. Horst. Odalisque 1943

Horst P. Horst

Horst P. Horst. Odalisque 1943

Horst P. Horst

Horst P. Horst. Lisa sitting on drapery 1940

Horst P. Horst

Horst P. Horst. Lisa sitting on drapery 1940

Horst P. Horst

Horst P. Horst. Waxed beauty 1938

Horst P. Horst

Horst P. Horst. Bow and arrow 1983

Edward Linley Sambourne

Edward Linley Sambourne. Hetty Pettigrew 1890

Edward Linley Sambourne

Edward Linley Sambourne. Portrait of Marion 1894

Edward Linley Sambourne

Edward Linley Sambourne. Woman at seashore 1906

Eberhard Posner

Eberhard Posner. Untitled 1930s

Rolf Odegaard

Rolf Odegaard. Summer sun 1924

Otto Schmidt

Otto Schmidt. Untitled 1906

Otto Schmidt

Otto Schmidt. Untitled 1906

Edward Linley Sambourne

Edward Linley Sambourne. Kate Manning 1888

Rolf Winquist

Rolf Winquist. Angles 1945

Rolf Winquist

Rolf Winquist. Intense 1942

Otho Lloyd

Otho Lloyd. Portrait of a woman 1944

Otho Lloyd

Otho Lloyd. Claude Collet 1944

Otho Lloyd

Otho Lloyd. Claude Collet 1944

Otho Lloyd

Otho Lloyd. Untitled 1944-1950

Otho Lloyd

Otho Lloyd. Untitled 1940s

Otho Lloyd

Otho Lloyd. Study in nude 1946

Otho Lloyd

Otho Lloyd. Seated woman 1944-1950

Otho Lloyd

Otho Lloyd. Back study of a woman 1946

Otho Lloyd

Otho Lloyd. Untitled 1944-1950

Bassano Ltd

Bassano Ltd. Roshanara (Olive Craddock) 1913

Angus Basil

Angus Basil. Reflections 1920s

Angus Basil

Angus Basil. Untitled 1920s

Angus Basil

Angus Basil. Aziz 1916

Angus Basil

Angus Basil.Untitled 1920s. Hand tinted photo

Peter Basch

Peter Basch. Two friends 1959

Peter Basch

Peter Basch. Two friends 1959

Angus Basil

Angus Basil. Half-draped woman, before 1921

Angus Basil

Angus Basil. Early morning 1918

Angus Basil

Angus Basil. The coffin 1915

Angus Basil

Angus Basil. Portrait of a woman before 1921

Angus Basil

Angus Basil. Portrait of a woman before 1921

Angus Basil

Angus Basil. Portrait study of Mlle Mikoulina 1920

Angus Basil

Angus Basil. Silver and gold 1937

Angus Basil

Angus Basil. Untitled 1920

Angus Basil

Angus Basil. Portrait of Eve Balfour 1920s

Pierre Jamet

Pierre Jamet. Back and bare feet in the sand 1938

Nora Edney-Hayter

Nora Edney-Hayter. Left by the tide 1923

Nora Edney-Hayter

Nora Edney-Hayter. The water lily 1923

Nora Edney-Hayter

Nora Edney-Hayter. The mermaid 1923

Nora Edney-Hayter

Nora Edney-Hayter. The sun worshiper 1923

Hans von Behr

Hans von Behr. Hands and candle 1930

Hans von Behr

Hans von Behr. Nocturne 1930

Hans von Behr

Hans von Behr. Reverie 1930

Man Ray

Man Ray. Kiki de Montparnasse 1923

Man Ray

Man Ray. Woman and map 1950. Superimposition

Edward Weston

Edward Weston. Portrait of Amaryllis Nicol holding a cigarette 1928

Arnold Genthe

Arnold Genthe. The dancers Beatrice Wanger and Solveig Hornbeck 1921

Edward Weston

Edward Weston. The dancer Margaret Nicol 1928

William Mortensen

William Mortensen. Circe 1935.
In Greek mythology, Circe (from the Ancient Greek « circe, » bird of prey) is a very powerful sorceress, described by Homer as « particularly skilled in the art of poisons and drugs, capable of performing metamorphoses. She assumes as many guises as she wears masks. Capable of changing form, nature or structure such as the object, to such an extent that her identity is no longer recognizable. »

Aleksander Khlebnikov

Aleksander Khlebnikov. Portrait with a bottle of perfume 1931

Costică Acsinte

Costică Acsinte. Woman holding a cigarette 1930s

Anton Bruehl

Anton Bruehl. Harlem number, Versailles cafe 1943

Jacqueline Rau

Jacqueline Rau. Diana the huntress 1926

Noël Teulon-Porter

Noël Teulon-Porter. Untitled 1930s

Alfred Stieglitz

Alfred Stieglitz. Georgia O’Keeffe silhouette 1916

Man ray

Man Ray. Tearful woman 1935. Hand-colored photography

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