Romy Schneider as Carole Werner in What’s New Pussycat, 1965
from lumas
Crescent Soul ,1990 by Chester Jr. Higgins
Sam Haskins, Untitled, 1979
from VAN HAM
Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar
from liquidnight
Walker Evans
from liquidnight
more Irina Ionesco
…her pictures of women, with their pallid complexions and statuesque poses, often suggest death. ‘Yes. I didn’t set out to do this — it happened. It is more than death, it is mainly the waiting. It is an image of loneliness. Loneliness and death are almost the same thing.
quoted from ‘How to Photograph Women’ by Dixons
thanks to Miss Peelpants
Suzy Parker, New York, for Harper’s Bazaar, April 1952 by Lillian Bassman *
Hommage to Blumenfeld ,1984 by David Seidner
Self portrait, 1930 by Lucia Moholy *
from Bauhaus Women & MONDOBLOGO
Nina Engel, 1932 by Wols
from Hus Gallery
Marcelle Chantal : Extase, 1927 © Albert Rudomine [more here]
from Îles et archipels, photographies 1850-2010
Until July 13
Galerie Michèle Chomette
24, rue Beaubourg
75003 Paris
thanks to exquisite La Lettre
[they really deserved that LIFE photo blog award;]