12/01/2010

what i'm going to rent this weekend

gesture and character

the line, the cross, the turn
























Lotte Jacobi, The dancer Claire Bauroff, Berlin, 1928
























Anna Pavlova (the dying swan)

Barbara Morgan - Anna Sokolow, 1939via
Barbara Morgan, Anna Sokolow, 1939

Erwin Blumenfeld - Model in Slip, NY, 1947via
Erwin Blumenfeld, Model in Slip, NY, 1947

crashinglybeautiful:  Niddy Impekoven [November 2,1904-September 20,2002] photo   by Eberth in Der Künstlerische Tanz Unserer Zeit by Hermann Aubel and Marianne Aubel. Leipzig: K. R. Langewiesche, 1928 from Crossett Library [more about her here] Courtesy of billyjane.

Niddy Impekoven [November 2,1904-September 20,2002] Photo by Eberth in Der Künstlerische Tanz Unserer Zeit by Hermann Aubel and Marianne Aubel. Leipzig: K. R. Langewiesche, 1928


Viola Farber, 1958via
Viola Farber, 1958

cogitationsofacurmudgeon:  Arnold Genthe, Dancer, 1920s
Arnold Genthe, Dancer, 1920s