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Clarence H. White - Young Woman with Mirror (Mrs. Addison Dickinson) c1904.
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Clarence H. White - Young Woman with Mirror (Mrs. Addison Dickinson) c1904.

    • #Clarence H. White
    • #Pictorialism
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    • #1900s
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    • #Mirror
    • #Reflection
    • #Mrs. Addison Dickinson
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Wilhelm Von Gloeden - Sculpture, c1900.
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Wilhelm Von Gloeden - Sculpture, c1900.

    • #Wilhelm Von Gloeden
    • #Photography
    • #Statue
    • #Sculpture
    • #Turn of the Century
    • #1900s
    • #Flowers
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Fritz W. Guerin - Young woman, c1900.
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Fritz W. Guerin - Young woman, c1900.

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    • #Fritz W. Guerin
    • #Photography
    • #Portrait
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Baron Adolph de Meyer - LA VIERGE A L’ENFANT (The Virgin and Child): hand-pulled photogravure (detail) from: Bulletin du Photo-Club de Paris: December, 1896.
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Baron Adolph de Meyer - LA VIERGE A L’ENFANT (The Virgin and Child): hand-pulled photogravure (detail) from: Bulletin du Photo-Club de Paris: December, 1896.

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    • #Baron Adolph de Meyer
    • #Adolph de Meyer
    • #Pictorialism
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    • #Virgin and Child
    • #1890s
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    • #Nippleless Child
    • #Photogravure
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Charles Schenk - Draperies in Action, New York 1902.
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Charles Schenk - Draperies in Action, New York 1902.

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    • #Charles Schenk
    • #Photography
    • #Nude
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Charles Schenk - Draped Beauty, 1902.
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Charles Schenk - Draped Beauty, 1902.

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    • #Charles Schenk
    • #Photography
    • #Nude
    • #Nude Study
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Charles Schenk - Artistic Study of the Human Body, 1898.
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Charles Schenk - Artistic Study of the Human Body, 1898.

… via Find an Auction

    • #Charles Schenk
    • #Photography
    • #Nude Study
    • #Nude
    • #1890s
    • #Turn of the Century
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Isadora Duncan, 1904. Photo by Soichi Sunami for Schloss, New York.
… via the Smithsonian Archives of American Art
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Isadora Duncan, 1904. Photo by Soichi Sunami for Schloss, New York.

… via the Smithsonian Archives of American Art

    • #Isadora Duncan
    • #Soichi Sunami
    • #Schloss
    • #New York
    • #Dance
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    • #Turn of the Century
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Advertising poster for Egyptian Deities cigarettes, c.1900.
… “The famous cigarette poster which launched the great career” of Ruth St. Denis.  She was obsessed with this poster, and used it as the inspiration for many of her dances.  This was the main inspiration for her Egypta program. 
… from Miss Ruth: The “More Living Life” of Ruth St. Denis by Walter Terry.  Published by Dodd, Mead & Company, 1969.  Small colour version here.
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Advertising poster for Egyptian Deities cigarettes, c.1900.

… “The famous cigarette poster which launched the great career” of Ruth St. Denis.  She was obsessed with this poster, and used it as the inspiration for many of her dances.  This was the main inspiration for her Egypta program. 

… from Miss Ruth: The “More Living Life” of Ruth St. Denis by Walter Terry.  Published by Dodd, Mead & Company, 1969.  Small colour version here.

    • #Ruth St. Denis
    • #Egyptian Deities
    • #Cigarette
    • #Poster
    • #Turn of the Century
    • #Dance
    • #personal
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(Unknown) Pictorialism, c.1900.
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(Unknown) Pictorialism, c.1900.

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Robert Demachy - Untitled, c.1902.
… from Photography at the Worcester Art Museum: Keeping Shadows, David Acton, Worcester Art Museum 2004.
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Robert Demachy - Untitled, c.1902.

… from Photography at the Worcester Art Museum: Keeping Shadows, David Acton, Worcester Art Museum 2004.

    • #Robert Demachy
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    • #Nude
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    • #Scan
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Alphonse Mucha - The Painter’s Model “Doris”, c.1895.
… from Photography at the Worcester Art Museum: Keeping Shadows, David Acton, Worcester Art Museum 2004.
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Alphonse Mucha - The Painter’s Model “Doris”, c.1895.

… from Photography at the Worcester Art Museum: Keeping Shadows, David Acton, Worcester Art Museum 2004.

    • #Alphonse Mucha
    • #Photography
    • #Nude Study
    • #1890s
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Dr. Friedrich Victor Spitzer - Auf der Düne (On the Dune), 1902.
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Dr. Friedrich Victor Spitzer - Auf der Düne (On the Dune), 1902.

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    • #Dr. Friedrich Victor Spitzer
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Dr. Friedrich Victor Spitzer - Portrait, 1900.
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Dr. Friedrich Victor Spitzer - Portrait, 1900.

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Louis Amedee and Edmond Goldschmidt - The Lily Pool, c.1900.
… from The Body: Photographs of the Human Form by William A. Ewing, Chronicle Books, 1994.
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Louis Amedee and Edmond Goldschmidt - The Lily Pool, c.1900.

… from The Body: Photographs of the Human Form by William A. Ewing, Chronicle Books, 1994.

    • #Louis Amedee
    • #Edmond Goldschmidt
    • #Nude
    • #Bath
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