realityayslum:

Emil Otto Hoppe - Ms. Diana Verne, Dancer with Snake, 1922.

… via the E.O. Hoppe Estate Collection

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rumbleart:

“Wind Fire.” Thérèse Duncan, the adopted daughter of Isadora Duncan, dancing at the Acropolis of Athens, 1921, by Edward Steichen.

Steichen was on holiday in Venice in 1921 at the same time as the dancer Isadora Duncan who was on her way to Greece with her dance troupe. With the promise that Steichen would be able to make motion pictures of her dancing on the Acropolis, Isadora persuaded him to accompany her. While she managed to pose for a few photographs at the Parthenon, it was with her pupil and adopted daughter Thérèse that Steichen produced this startling and remarkable image: She was a living reincarnation of a Greek nymph. Once, while photographing the Parthenon, I lost sight of her, but I could hear her. When I asked where she was, she raised her arms in answer. I swung the camera around and photographed her arms against the background of the Erechtheum. And then we went out to a part of the Acropolis behind the Parthenon, and she posed on a rock, against the sky with her Greek garments. The wind pressed the garments tight to her body, and the ends were left flapping and fluttering. They actually crackled. This gave the effect of fire — ‘Wind Fire’ (Steichen, A Life in Photography, np).

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obligeme:

Let’s leave Buster to undress for a minute and go flirt with Dorothy

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creepingirrelevance:

Curvy Mitzi Gaynor (large photo)

saige-sirena:

Benne Gezeritt DesignsCo

sydneyflapper:

1924 article on the Dolly sisters - well worth reading if you can in high res.

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deviatesinc:

Ellen Tells and fellow dancer, 1923

photo by Madame d’Ora

artdecoblog:

Alice Wilkie, Ziegfeld Girl, 1925 by John McNab on Flickr.

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Photograph by Alfred Cheney Johnston.

judywald:

Moulin Rouge 1920’s

(barbebleu on flickr)

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