from Color Correction by Ernst Haas
Crazy Horse, 1967 by Jean Barthet
Bambou , le Palace, 1987 by Guy Marineau
[Bambou was stage name of Caroline von Paulus - second wife of Serge Gainsbourg -merci a amare-habeo for update ;]
Chargesheimer, At the Bar/Kissing Couple, Cologne, about 1956
from Museum Ludwig
Gisèle a La Boule Blanche, Montparnasse, Paris, c. 1932
In 1956 Black Star, an agency in New York, commissioned me to photograph “Paris by Night”, for a small men’s magazine in the US: the assignment was all but prestigious, but I couldn’t afford turning it down. My problem was that none of the better nightclubs would allow to take back-stage photographs. So I had to content myself with the “Sphynx”, a second-class joint in rue Pigalle, whose porter pocketed my tip and introduced me into the dressing room. In the beginning, the girls didn’t seem to mind, possibly because that night’s audience was so dull, that anyone showing some interest in them appeared as a relief.
Somewhere in West Germany,1978 by Leonard Freed
from All I Have to Offer exhibition at Domeischel Gallery
Illustration for Baudelaire’s Les Fleurs du Mal by Federico Beltran Masses
[L’Atelier D’Art Dreux-Barry, Paris 1946]
via vintageprints
[more FdM illustrations here]
Nachtlokal in Weimar Berlin
from Voluptuous Panic:The Erotic World of Weimar Berlin
via weimarloveclub
French burlesque perfromer Lily Niagara, seen here at the Crazy Horse Saloon in Paris during filming for Alessandra Blasetti’s sex documentary Europa di notti, 1959.