Albertina Rasch Ballet Group [Margaret Jacobson, Claire Deerfield, Jeanette Bradley, and Clayton Estes] June 1931
Gloria Swanson by Edward Steichen,1924
This is one of a series of portraits of Swanson made by Steichen for Vanity Fair. The best-known image from this sitting was published in the February 1928 issue of the magazine with the caption ‘Gloria Swanson: The star has made a film version of Miss Thompson, the Maugham story which is better known as Rain.’…As Diana Edkins points out in her notes for the published photograph, Swanson was, by the end of the 1920s, the highest-paid woman in the world. In addition to her persona as a femme fatale, she was also a businesswoman who produced her own films for more than a decade.
Margaret Severn by Edward Steichen,1923
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[see also different version,Isadora shot from the same session here and there’s background story at OF]
Edward Steichen took this photo of Miller in 1928 and sold it to Kotex, making her the first actual person to appear in a ad for menstrual hygiene in Delineator magazine [U.S.A.], March 1929
Edward Steichen ~Lee Miller,1928
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Edward Steichen ~Marion Morehouse Modeling Outfit in Theatrical Mask designed by W.T.Benda,c.1926
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Edward Steichen ~Mask of Goethe and Spiral, 1932
[reminds me of Curtis;]
Garbo by Edward Steichen,1928
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