Ruth St. Denis in "Lakme"
Photographic postcard of the dancer Ruth St. Denis, wearing an elaborate costume.
View ArticleUntitled (museum), 2007
People walking up and sitting on the steps to the British Museum seem not to notice the tall female figure in a long black dress standing facing them. The figure is most likely Weems. The stairs cut...
View ArticleCementerio, Juchitan, Oaxaca
A woman carrying a bundle of sticks walking through a cemetery in Juchitan, Oaxaca, Mexico, superimposed with a flock of birds in flight.
View ArticleJanitzio
Fishing nets drying in the sun near Janitzio, Mexico. Several fishermen and a boat are visible in the distance. In the far distance are mountains.
View ArticleRuth St. Denis (In Geisha Dress)
Ruth St. Denis in costume for a Japanese Dance of the Genroku Period. Though this image seems to be staged rather than taken from an actual performance, St. Denis did have a number of dances in which...
View ArticlePortrait of a Man
Early twentieth century black and white photographic print of a portrait of a man in a suit and a black beret.
View ArticleNew York Stock Exchange
A black-and-white cityscape shot of the New York Stock Exchange building in Manhattan, from the ground looking up.
View ArticleLife Goes On-Antigua
A group of men and women gathered in a ruined architectural structure.
View ArticleMotion Study: Woman Carrying Bucket and Broom
A motion study of a woman carrying a bucket and broom, walking up and down a short staircase.
View ArticleCreitz Farm, Adrian, Texas
Desolate farmland. Scene is divided in half by a distant fence line - with clouds in the top portion and dried up farmland in the bottom portion. Foreground includes remnants of cement foundation, a...
View ArticleZoe
Portrait of a woman wearing an ornate headband and a long beaded (possibly pearls?) necklace wrapped around the neck multiple times. Zoe was a heroine of the Greek War of Independence in 1821. She was...
View ArticleTwo Nudes (Marion Morgan Dancers?)
Two nude women, possibly Marion Morgan Dancers, lounge on an over-sized concrete bench outdoors. One woman has a light swath of cloth across her lower torso and holds a mirror or fan.
View ArticleGirl on a train, Waterloo Station, London
A young woman with a short, sleek haircut, wearing dark lipstick and menswear-inspired clothing, looks out from the window of a train in Waterloo Station, London.
View ArticleUntitled, 2005
The photograph depicts a somewhat messy interior space, perhaps a hotel room. There are several open suitcases on the bed and bedside table, and clothes are visible in the closet, which has been left...
View ArticleRecent Terrains No. 6
A panoramic landscape of a freeway construction site in Orange County, CA.
View ArticleBarbara Mullen, Flat Hat, Bare Back, Harper's Bazaar, New York, 1958
Barbara Mullen’s celebrated twenty-inch waist is at the center of Flat Hat Bare Back, which Bassman shot for Harper’s Bazaar in 1958. The formal, compositional elements of black-and-white fashion...
View ArticleGolden Fox, Blue Fox, Marilyn Ambrose, Harper's Bazaar, Boa by Frederica, 1954
Commentary: In Golden Fox, Blue Fox, a photograph which appeared in Harper’s Bazaar in November 1954, Marilyn Ambrose, a prominent model of the time, is seen intimately, her face half in shadow, half...
View ArticleMexico (24)
While Lange considers her photographic work to be far removed from her film career, the pictures produced do have an appropriately cinematic quality to them. Her images of Mexico, swell with a quiet...
View ArticleMexico (26)
While Lange considers her photographic work to be far removed from her film career, the pictures produced do have an appropriately cinematic quality to them. Her images of Mexico, demonstrated in...
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