Saturday, March 31, 2007
Friday, March 30, 2007
Marland Stone, Gloria Swanson
Found in Greenbriar Picture Shows blog. Click image for 895 x 1024 version.
Thursday, March 29, 2007
W.T. Benda
Found in The Golden Age of Illustration Project thread. Click image for 626 x 640 version.
Wednesday, March 28, 2007
Tuesday, March 27, 2007
Jacques-Henri Lartigue, Renée Perle, 1930-1932
"John Galliano calls Renée Perle, the inspiration behind his fall show, "a kittenish Parisian coquette." Jacques Henri Lartigue, who immortalized her in his pictures, had another term: angel. The revered photographer met his muse in 1930 on the Rue de la Pompe. He thought she was Mexican, but he guessed wrong; Perle was Romanian, and a model once employed by the French dressmaker Doeuillet. "She is beautiful," Lartigue told his diary. "The small mouth with the full painted lips! The ebony black eyes. From under her fur coat comes a warmth of perfume. The head looks petite on her long neck." The pair spent two years together, cavorting as if on eternal vacation in Cannes, Juan-les-Pins, and Biarritz, with Lartigue's camera always at the ready. In the "shadowless heaven" of his photographs, glamorous women, including his first and second wives, Bibi and Florette, abound, but Perle's lacquered hair, slender silhouette, modern T-shirts, armfuls of bangles, and talonlike nails shone the brightest. "Around her," Lartigue wrote, "I see a halo of magic.""
—Laird Borrelli
1931
At Biarritz, France, 1930
Juan-les-Pins, France, 1930
1931
1930
Monday, March 26, 2007
Sunday, March 25, 2007
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