Lady Diana Cooper by Sir Cecil Beaton, 1930.
… today’s nun brought to you by the National Portrait Gallery
Mother’s Day Nun
Anonymous - c1870s spirit photograph of two ghostly figures, one of which is a young nun.
… via perfect find (ebay)
… a delightful array of habits
Nuns of various orders at a conference related to the Second Vatican Council, Hotel Lobby, Chicago, c1960s. Featuring from left to right: a Sister of the Holy Cross, a Franciscan Nun, a Dominican Nun, a Sister of St. Agnes, and a Daughter of Charity.
Nun for today.
Imogen Cunningham - Nun at Sacred Heart Convent, 1976.
Carlo Canevari (1922 - 1996) - Nuns Waiting at a Crossing, n.d.
Picnicking nuns with wicked habits.
Burt Glinn - Daughters of Charity at a picnic during country retreat, St. Louis, 1964.
Nuns and Cake.
Eve Arnold - A wedding cake for the Brides of Christ, Surrey, England, 1965.
Michael Garlington - The Egg, 2009.
… via Gallery 291
Sunday Nunday … double your pleasure … double your nun …
Paul-Nils Nilsson - Two Nuns.
… from Photography Annual, 1954 Edition. A Selection of the World’s Greatest Photographs by the Editors of Photography magazine.
Sunday. Nunday.
Recess by Kurt E. Svensson.
… scanned from Photography Annual, 1954 Edition. A Selection of the World’s Greatest Photographs by the Editors of Photography magazine.
Sunday. Nunday.
Adolf Fassbender (1884-1980) - Kindergarten, n.d.
Erwin Blumenfeld - Nun and Bishop, 1930.
The nun and bishop are Lena and Erwin Blumenfeld. Clockwise from the upper left-hand corner: Synagogue, Strasbourg Cathedral, after 1225; Pieta, Monastery of Our Lady, Coburg, 1360/70; Judith with the Severed Head of Holophernes, Mechelen, around 1512-1514 (by Conrad Meit); Adam, Marienkapelle Wurzburg, 1491-1493 (by Tilman Riemenschneider); Saint Florian, Saint Wolfgang Altar in the parish church of Saint Wolfgang in Salzkammergut, 1475-1481 (by Michael Pacher); Eva, Marienkapelle Wurzburg, 1491-1493 (by Tilman Riemenschneider); Saint Joachim, Birnau high alter, Wallfahrtskirche Birnau, 1750 (by Joseph Anton Feuchtmayer), with substituted attributes: Annunciation, former Augustinian monastery in Weyarn, 1764 (by Ignaz Gunther), whereby the rayed nimbus encircles the head of Bishop Friedrich von Hohenlohe (dies 1352) from his gravestone in Bamberg Cathedral (the effigy is considered to be the earliest individual portrait in stone) rather than the original Holy Ghost. Blumenfeld’s daughter Lisette can be identified in the small photograph of children playing.
… from Erwin Blumenfeld: Dada Montages 1916 - 1933 by Helen Adkins, published by Hatje Cantz Verlag 2008.
