See also film blog for poncy celebration of nuns without clothes.

22nd May 2013

Photo with 87 notes

Powder Puff (Vogue) by Gjon Mili, 1945

Powder Puff (Vogue) by Gjon Mili, 1945

Tagged: photographygjon mili1940spowder puffvogue

22nd May 2013

Photo reblogged from Reality Asylum with 226 notes

realityayslum:

Edward Weston - Cats at Door, 1944.
… via Transverse Alchemy, from the delightful gallery and short bio Masters of Monochrome: Part III- Edward Weston.

realityayslum:

Edward Weston - Cats at Door, 1944.

… via Transverse Alchemy, from the delightful gallery and short bio Masters of Monochrome: Part III- Edward Weston.

Tagged: photography1940sedward westoncats

21st May 2013

Photo reblogged from Hoodoo That Voodoo with 666 notes

hoodoothatvoodoo:

Joseph Jasgur
‘Geri Noonan’
1940s

hoodoothatvoodoo:

Joseph Jasgur

‘Geri Noonan’

1940s

Tagged: geri noonanjoseph jasgur1940sphotographycamera

17th May 2013

Photo reblogged from Love Like Cancer with 129 notes

kirgiakos:

Hans Bellmer - “Souterrain Baroque”
Lithograph ,  c.1944

kirgiakos:

Hans Bellmer - “Souterrain Baroque”

Lithograph ,  c.1944

Tagged: hans bellmerillustration1940ssurrealismsurrealFTTuncanny anatomy

10th May 2013

Photoset with 76 notes

Le Bain avec Andromede by Felix Labisse, 1944 [crop]
From set of nine lithographs illustrating poems by Robert Desnos

Also

Tagged: felix labissebook artrobert desnos1940sillustrationsurrealnudehandsmeatstockings

10th May 2013

Photoset reblogged from Poe's Mistress with 2,063 notes

frenchtwist:

Brassaï

City Cats, 1938

Escalier de Montmartre, Paris, 1932

Le Chat, 1945

City Cats II, 1938

City Cats III, 1938


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Tagged: photographycatsbrassai1930s1940s

6th May 2013

Photo with 66 notes

La fenetre du marquis by Felix Labisse, 1947
(Variation on this)
Also

La fenetre du marquis by Felix Labisse, 1947

(Variation on this)

Also

Tagged: felix labissepainting1940ssurrealnudeuncanny anatomy

4th May 2013

Photoset with 106 notes

Max Dupain

Dancer dancing, 1940s

Untitled (Dancers with light traces), 1940s

Untitled (Nude with light traces), 1938

Thanks to realityayslum for the link

Tagged: dancedancersphotographylightnude1930s1940smax dupain

2nd May 2013

Photo with 125 notes

Useful Dawn by Marcel G. Lefrancq, 1946

Useful Dawn by Marcel G. Lefrancq, 1946

Tagged: photographyhands1940smarcel g. lefrancq

29th April 2013

Photo with 119 notes

El Venadito (The Wounded Deer) by Frida Kahlo, 1946

El Venadito (The Wounded Deer) by Frida Kahlo, 1946

Tagged: paintingthe wounded deerdeerhybridsfrida kahlouncanny anatomy1940santhropomorphisation