Vintage Photographers

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Laryew (Walery)

Early 20th century photographer who photographed the rich and famous in Paris. He is known for his images of the girls of the Folies Bergere photographed nude and semi-nude. Produced an important art deco folio of 100 nudes ‘NUS‘ in photogravure c. 1924 under the name Laryew.

“Lucien Walery (1863-1935) stands out in the night lights of Paris because he photographed an extraordinary number of beautiful women from most of the particular risque dance revues from the early 1900's through the 1920's.
It appears that there were 2 or even 3 photographers who used the label "Walery" to identify their photographs. The elder was Count Stanislaw Julian Ostrorog (1830-1890), born in Mohylewo, Lithuania. He became a British citizen in 1862, and set up a studio in London, in 1883. Stanislaw Ostrorog used the pseudonym of Walery which he adapted from his wife's name, Waleria. After his death in 1890, his son Stanislaw Julian Ignacy, Count Ostrorog (1863-1935) continued the studio of his father, combining (between 1890-1900) with Alfred Ellis to become Ellis and Walery. Walery is known for his famous portraits of Queen Victoria.
The younger Count Ostrorog is often confused with Lucien Wale'ry, who lived and worked in Paris in the period 1900-1930, and is known for his photographs of dance revue ladies. a.o. Mata Hari and Josephine Baker. Lucien signed his photographs "Wale'ry - Paris", "Yre'law", or "Laryew". Some believe that Lucien is the same as the younger Count Ostrorog, who is supposed to have moved to Paris, around 1900. More likely Lucien is altogether a different person.”
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Josephine Baker



Girls of the Folies Bergere




from Nus

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"Dorothy Wilding began her photographic career as an apprentice to Bond Street photographer Marian Neilson. Wilding was the first woman to be appointed as the Official Royal Photographer for the 1937 Coronation and opened a second studio in New York in the same year. She is best known for her brightly lit linear compositions photographed in high key lighting against a white background."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorothy_Wilding
http://www.npg.org.uk/live/search/pe...07951&role=art


Elizabeth II





Dorothy Bartlam


Edna Best



Frances Day



Isabel Jeans



Mary Nash




Rhoda Beasley

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Models photographed by Franz Fiedler

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franz_Fiedler

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Photographed by Martin Badekow

Anny Ondra
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0648565/






Henriette Hiebel (La Jana)

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Laure Albin Guillot (née Meifredy; February 14, 1879 – February 22, 1962) was a French photographer
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laure_Albin_Guillot










Ballerina Jacqueline Rayet



Ballerina Janine Charrat



Top Model Odile Bagge

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"Daniel Masclet, landscape and figurative-portrait photographer, was born in France in 1892. Though he started out as a professional cellist, he compiled an album of photographs (now lost) in the First World War, and in the 1920s frequented the Photo-Club de Paris.
Photography soon became his primary focus, and he would eventually work for Harper's Bazaar and Vogue, and in 1928 he opened a studio in Paris, specializing in historicist portraits. decisive Meeting Edward Weston in 1933 his style soon became influenced by the modern minimalist, abstract landscapes. He published a variety of books on the subject of photography, including: Nus: La Beauty de la FemmeІ (1933). An exhibition curator, juror, and critic, he was a major figure on the European photographic scene."

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Barnard of London

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“…Bertram Park (1883–1972) having started in the family firm, manufacturers of artist's materials, Park developed an interest in photography and became a professional portraitist. He was a founder member of the London Salon of Photography in 1910. Park set up studios on at 43 Dover Street, London with Marcus Adams (1857–1959) and his wife, the miniature painter Yvonne Gregory (1889–1970) in 1919, with the financial backing of Lord Carnarvon, the Egyptologist. Marcus Adams trained with them and ran their Nursery Studio for children; Paul Tanqueray also had premises in the same street, as did Hugh Cecil and Alexander Bassano. Known as ‘The Trinity of Dover Street’ Park, Gregory and Adams worked together within the same firm but in their own distinctive studios until 1958.
Bertram Park was enormously successful, being obliged to have up to five sittings a day to satisfy the demand for his work. He photographed the British Royal Family, and his reputation was such that various European crowned heads would come annually to his studio to be photographed. His stylish and beautifully composed portrait studies more often relied on dramatic lighting than on elaborate backgrounds.
He exhibited as part of the European avant-garde movement in the first international salon of the photographic nude which took place in Paris in 1933 in the company of Man Ray, Drtikol, Albin-Guillot, Yva, Moholy-Nagy, and others, in all photographers from 17 countries. A catalogue of that exhibition entitled 'Nus: La Beaute de La Femme' was subsequently published by Daniel Masclet is rare and is regularly listed as one of the landmark books of photography. In 1935 Bertam Park and Yvonne Gregory published 'The Beauty Of The Female Form' containing 48 photoengraved plates of romantic nudes in a pictorialist style and spectacular settings using powerful contrasts of light. The best compositions however are those taken in the open air, on beaches or in meadows with models posing in a completely natural way…”

1926 - Living sculpture : a record of expression in the human figure
1930s - Eve In The Sunlight
1935 - The Beauty Of The Female Form
1935 - Sun Bathers
1936 - Curves And Contrasts Of The Human Figure






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Russell Ball
Time Period: 1920s-1930s (?)
Location: Los Angeles
“Independent who contracted with M.G.M. periodically.
Dynamic poses and spectacularly beautiful prints signed with green ink “Ball” on right bottom corner.
Produced some of the finest images of the golden age.”
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Constance Talmadge, Greta Garbo, Leatrice Joy, Lili Segrena, Myrna Loy





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Gerald Carpenter
Time Period: 1910s-1920s (?)
Location: Los Angeles
“Began in the 1910s using the NY theatrical portrait convention of presenting the head, torso, or figure resolving out of a white background. Later developed a lustrously tonal high definition style in a set of famous portraits of Mary Miles Minter for Flying A. Sig: Carpenter, LA with name in squarish letters.”
© David S. Shields


Bessie Love, Eleanore Gilmore, Juanita Hansen, Margery Wilson, Ruth Roland, etc.





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