Orval Hixon - Untitled, 1922.
… via the Spencer Museum of Art
Orval Hixon - Portrait of Annette Kellerman, c.1920.
… via the Spencer Museum of Art
Annette Kellerman in A Daughter of the Gods, 1916.
Kellerman railed against the prevailing modesty restrictions in swimwear from a young age, lambasting the impractical nature of the bathing dress and hose. This culminated in her arrest in 1907 on a charge of indecent exposure on a beach in Massachusetts as her one-piece, thigh-high swimsuit was deemed far too revealing. Kellerman’s argument that she needed to be free from cumbersome swimwear in order to achieve unrestricted movement was accepted by the judge and the case was dismissed. The ensuing popularity of her one-piece (that highlighted every curve of her body) eventually led to her own line of swimwear, and the acceptance of the style left companies like Jantzen free to pick up the mantle. … text via: Theatre of Fashion
Lewis Carroll - Alice Jane Donkin, 1862.
Zdzisław Beksiński - Nude, c.1955.
Zdzisław Beksiński - Nude, c.1955.
Edward Steichen - Grasshopper - Diagram of Doom, France, 1921.
… from Edward Steichen: Lives in Photography, by Todd Brandow and William A. Ewing, Foundation for the Exhibition of Photography, and the Musee de l’Elysee, Lausanne, 2007.
Vintage French Photo Postcard of Two Nuns, c.1900.
Aaron Siskind - North Carolina, 1951.
H.A. Atwell - Circus Acrobats, c.1920s.
Greta Garbo in The Temptress, 1926.
Greta Buysse (b.1942), n.d.
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Cindy Marler, from the Amsterdam’s Angels series, 1990.
Jaroslav Nohel - Untitled, c.1935.