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Miroslav Hák 
Pussy Willow in Vase
c1936
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Miroslav Hák

Pussy Willow in Vase

c1936

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    • #Miroslav Hak
    • #Photography
    • #Pussy Willow
    • #Chiaroscuro
    • #Czech
    • #1930s
    • #Shadow
    • #Reflection
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Owen O’Meara

1) Nude at Window, 2013.

2) Abstraction in D, 2007.

… via PhotoPoints

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    • #Owen O'Meara
    • #Photography
    • #Contemporary
    • #Abstract
    • #Abstraction
    • #Shadow
    • #Nude
  • 2 weeks ago
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Jo Alison Feiler 
Untitled (Carol with black mask over face), 1979.
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Jo Alison Feiler

Untitled (Carol with black mask over face), 1979.

    • #Jo Alison Feiler
    • #Photography
    • #Window
    • #Mask
    • #Nude
    • #1970s
    • #Shadow
  • 3 weeks ago
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Harold Haliday Costain 
 An Architectural Abstraction, World’s Fair, 1933, Chicago, Ill, 1933.
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Harold Haliday Costain 

An Architectural Abstraction, World’s Fair, 1933, Chicago, Ill, 1933.

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    • #Harold Haliday Costain
    • #Photography
    • #Art Deco
    • #Abstraction
    • #Architecture
    • #World's Fair
    • #Chicago
    • #1930s
    • #Shadow
  • 4 weeks ago
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Manuel Álvarez Bravo - La Del Pirú (She of the Piru Tree), 1978.
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Manuel Álvarez Bravo - La Del Pirú (She of the Piru Tree), 1978.

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    • #Manuel Alvarez Bravo
    • #Photography
    • #Nude
    • #Tree
    • #Shadow
    • #1970s
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Lucien Clergue 

Nus américains, 1980-2000. (1-3)

& Untitled, 1980. (4)

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    • #Lucien Clergue
    • #Photography
    • #Shadow
    • #Mirror
    • #Nude
    • #1980s
    • #1990s
    • #Sheer
    • #Silhouette
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… a very young Andre de Dienes 
Paris, 1936.
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… a very young Andre de Dienes

Paris, 1936.

    • #Andre de Dienes
    • #Photography
    • #Paris
    • #Fog
    • #Trees
    • #Shadow
    • #Light
    • #1930s
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Bob Kolbrener - Controlled Burn and Dodge #1, Yosemite National Park, California, 1999.
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Bob Kolbrener - Controlled Burn and Dodge #1, Yosemite National Park, California, 1999.

    • #Bob Kolbrener
    • #Photography
    • #Yosemite National Park
    • #1990s
    • #Trees
    • #Smoke
    • #Shadow
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Thomas Stanton - Man in Fog, 1940.
* First prize winner in the Young People and Adults category of the 1940 Washington Salon Newspaper Amateur National Snapshot Awards Contest … via quint7510 (ebay)
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Thomas Stanton - Man in Fog, 1940.

* First prize winner in the Young People and Adults category of the 1940 Washington Salon Newspaper Amateur National Snapshot Awards Contest … via quint7510 (ebay)

    • #Thomas Stanton
    • #Amateur Photography
    • #Photography
    • #1940s
    • #Fog
    • #Silhoette
    • #Shadow
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Clarence John Laughlin - The Auto-Eroticists, 1940.
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Clarence John Laughlin - The Auto-Eroticists, 1940.

    • #Clarence John Laughlin
    • #Photography
    • #1940s
    • #Surreal
    • #Shadow
    • #Hands
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Susan Burnstine - Return, from the Between series.
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Susan Burnstine - Return, from the Between series.

    • #Susan Burnstine
    • #Photography
    • #Contemporary
    • #Light
    • #Silhouette
    • #Chiaroscuro
    • #Shadow
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Jason Langer - Figure no. 20, 2000.
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Jason Langer - Figure no. 20, 2000.

    • #Jason Langer
    • #Photography
    • #Contemporary
    • #Silhouette
    • #Shadow
    • #Chiaroscuro
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Max Dupain

1) Hands and Movement, c1935.

2) Nude and Wire, c1935.

3) Dancer Dancing, 1940s.

4) Untitled (Dancers with light traces), from the Portfolio Portfolio No.4 The female form, 1940s.

5) Untitled (Dancer), from the Portfolio Portfolio No.4 The female form, 1937.

6) Impassioned clay, 1936.

7) Untitled (Female nude with cloth overlay), 1930s.

8) Nude in grass, 1939.

9) Untitled (Nude behind screen), from the Portfolio Portfolio No.4 The female form, 1930s.

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    • #Max Dupain
    • #Photography
    • #Nude
    • #Hands
    • #Dance
    • #Multiple Exposure
    • #1930s
    • #1940s
    • #Shadow
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Henry Talbot - Nude with Flower, 1976.
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Henry Talbot - Nude with Flower, 1976.

    • #Henry Talbot
    • #Photography
    • #Nude
    • #1970s
    • #Flower
    • #Shadow
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Henri Cartier-Bresson - Alberto Giacometti on his way to his Studio in Stampa, Grisons, Switzerland, 1961.
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Henri Cartier-Bresson - Alberto Giacometti on his way to his Studio in Stampa, Grisons, Switzerland, 1961.

    • #Henri Cartier-Bresson
    • #Alberto Giacometti
    • #Photography
    • #Sculpture
    • #1960s
    • #Switzerland
    • #Shadow
  • 1 month ago
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