the story-tellers, part 40

florette's painted finger photographed by jacques henri lartigue.

bandaged finger photographed by daido moriyama, 1987.

fat hand and dollars, monte carlo photographed by helmut newton, 1986.

germaine krull photographed by eli lotar, ca. 1930.

woman with claws photographed by paul outerbridge jr., ca. 1937.

georgia o'keefe, a portrait, hands with thimble photographed by alfred stieglitz, 1920.

tilly losch, hands of a dancer, photographed by e.o. hoppe, 1928.

nude by helmut newton.

jeanne moreau in jean cocteau's la machine infernale, 1954.

etude de mains photographed by germaine krull, ca. 1930.

les mains de coco chanel photographed by andré kertész, 1938.

mains peintes par picasso photographed by man ray, 1935.

the story-tellers, part 29

nancy cunard by man ray, paris, ca. 1925

margo lion

(she was a german chanson, parodist, cabaret singer and actress....she hung out with marlene dietrich & they sang together & she is amazing! beyond love)

 marquise luisa casati by baron adolf de meyer, ca. 1912

reneé perle by jacques henri lartigue, ca. 1930

gia carangi wearing robert lee morris bracelets by albert watson, 1981

coco chanel concocting jewelry in her paris atelier by mark shaw, 1957

suzy solidor wearing chanel bracelets by man ray, 1920s

elizabeth taylor

1912

stockholm olympics

mata hari by emilio sommariva

gustav klimt wearing his painter's coat in front of his studio holding one of his cats

consolidated edison from the second avenue elevated, new york, karl struss

the medium eva c. with a materialization on her head and a luminous apparition between her hands, 

a. von schrenck-nötzing

young girl amidst marguerites, alfonse van besten

plate 19 from the storyville portraits, e.j. bellocq

 (photographs from the new orleans red-light district)

white star line advertisement for the return journey of the titanic

street in china, baron adolf de meyer

self portrait, anton josef trčka

washing & bleaching, alfonse van besten

the kiss by constantin brâncuşi

houdini upside down in the water torture cell

marchesa casati, baron adolf de meyer

grand prix de circuit de la seine, june 26,  jacques henri lartigue

lil shuckers (child labor), lewis hine

self portrait, egon schiele

fashion at the auteuill racetrack, france, seeberger brothers

happy new year!  i want to say thank you to all the visitors & followers for real life is elsewhere - it is much appreciated!  here's to 2012!

1911

the city of ambition, alfred stieglitz

ma jolie, pablo picasso

the girl works all day in a cannery. location unspecified but possibly mississippi, lewis hine

vaslav nijinsky, e.o. hoppe

zissou and yves change a tire, maman, papa & m. laroze watch, jacques henri lartigue

lucy krogh with her pet turtle, per krogh

a bow e. ge shig (william potter), ojibwe indian

eclipse, eugene atget

louise cromwell poses in fox furs

madchen, egon schiele

a fabric merchant at the samarkand market displays colorful silk, cotton, and wool fabrics as well as a few traditional carpets. a framed page of the koran hangs at the top of the stall, sergey prokudin-gorsky

auguste rodin, edward steichen

morning mist & sunshine, imogen cunningham

chez le sculpteur, léon gimpel

sonata, marcel duchamp