Side view of a nude woman seated in the branches of a tree.
Pine; Female nude in art; Nudes (representations); Platinum print; Trees in art; Women photographers; Photography-California; California-Pictorial works; Pictorialism (Photography movement)
A series of photographs of a female nude walking while carrying a jug, stopping, putting the jug on the ground and walking away. A second series of photographs of a female nude standing with a jug on her shoulder, putting the jug down and walking...
Motion study; Female nude in art; Nudes (representations); Collotype; Photography-California
People walking up and sitting on the steps to the British Museum seem not to notice the tall female figure in a long black dress standing facing them. The figure is most likely Weems. The stairs cut midway through the image on a horizontal line....
Black-and-white photography; Women artists, Black; Women, Black, in art; Columns; Stairs; Dresses; British Museum
Two nude women, possibly Marion Morgan Dancers, lounge on an over-sized concrete bench outdoors. One woman has a light swath of cloth across her lower torso and holds a mirror or fan.
Figure Study; Female nude in art; Photography of the nude; Women; Photography-California; Women photographers; Platinum print
The photograph depicts a somewhat messy interior space, perhaps a hotel room. There are several open suitcases on the bed and bedside table, and clothes are visible in the closet, which has been left open. The high ceiling and stage lighting in the...
Color photography; Color print; Female nude in art; Photography of the nude; Bedroom furniture
Barbara Mullen’s celebrated twenty-inch waist is at the center of Flat Hat Bare Back, which Bassman shot for Harper’s Bazaar in 1958. The formal, compositional elements of black-and-white fashion photography, which have since become Bassman’s...
Black-and-white photography; Gelatin silver print; Women photographers; Fashion
Commentary: In Golden Fox, Blue Fox, a photograph which appeared in Harper’s Bazaar in November 1954, Marilyn Ambrose, a prominent model of the time, is seen intimately, her face half in shadow, half in a soft glow of light. Ambrose’s visage is...
Black-and-white photography; Gelatin silver print; Women photographers; Fashion
In 1867 Muybridge was hired by Leland Stanford, then governor of California, to photographically prove that at some point during a horse’s gallop all four feet are off the ground. To help Stanford, Muybridge designed a faster shutter and a...
Motion study; Walking a dog; Female nude in art; Nudes (representations); Collotype; Photography-California
A woman in a white dress and scarf bends over holding a ball placed in a shelf under a full dish rack. Behind the objects is a wood wall that looks to have headless and partially nude female figures with arms outstretched painted on it.
A winter landscape showing the ruins of a structure with a stone foundation, and trees devoid of leaves. The ground is covered with a light dusting of snow. Lathkil Dale is the river valley of the Lathkil River in England.
Black-and-white photography; Winter; Landscape; Trees in art
