Louise Brooks possible fake
 

Louise Brooks


The third photo (with a hoop) looks like a fake. Her body is lighted
from the left, but the left side of her face is shadowed, and the right side
of her face is lighted.

Pic one looks reasonalbe real, although to me, her tit looks a bit bigger in this pic than normal.

I'd say pic two is definitely fake.

I see the point about the shadows on pic two, but it does look like the style of pic she did at the time and the body shape looks right. The shoes also look like the ones she wore in a full length nude pic in which she's standing on a rug and we can see some pubes. Maybe it's a mix of two separate pics of her?

I have already moved the first two images to the fakes thread, if you look to the bottom left of the first image you can just make out "A ???? Fake", the second image has the fakir's tag in the top right corner, and you can see some distortion around the head, also the pose is all wrong for the time period and for a woman like Louise, the third image is, I believe real, if you use Google search on it you will find it listed as " louise brooks pandora's box" and appears on 64 different sites and none of the images show any sort of tag, the pose is also very common for the time period.

There is a line on her neck that might be shadow, or might be where the fakir joined it to the body.

Hi there!

The third image purportedly of Louise Brooks is also a fake.

Just looking at it & you can see the head sits rather awkwardly on the body & closer inspection reveals the neck to head join is very off.

The trapezius muscle just seems to blend on in there. :)

Also a slight halo around only Brooks' head gives a further clue.

Final nail is the real owner of the body. :)

Generally attributed as Paulette Goddard by the the renowned photographer Alfred Cheney Johnston.

http://img240.imagevenue.com/loc252/..._123_252lo.jpg

Alternate link to an Imagebam gallery for those who prefer here.

There are several other poses of Paulette Goddard with the hoop & same shoes to be found just to back that up. For example on VEF here.

Hope this is useful!

Very well spotted, and thanks for the image to prove it, I will move the fake of Louise to the fakes thread. :thumbsup: