Posts tagged "trapeze artist"
  1. Notes: 71 / 1 year ago 
    Allen Lester & Lawrence D. Thornton, Rope acrobats, n.d. from Ringling Museum

    Allen Lester & Lawrence D. Thornton, Rope acrobats, n.d.

    from Ringling Museum

     
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  2. Notes: 503 / 1 year ago  from bookmarklet
    Maude Banvard, The Catch, Brockton Fair , 1907 by Frederick W Glasier from HEYDAY: Photographs of Frederick W Glasier

    Maude Banvard, The Catch, Brockton Fair , 1907 by Frederick W Glasier

    from HEYDAY: Photographs of Frederick W Glasier

     
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  3. Notes: 105 / 1 year ago  from bookmarklet
    Circus performer Harold Alzana high in the air on trapeze with two female performers hanging from his bicycle, April 1948 Ralph Morse for LIFE 

    Circus performer Harold Alzana high in the air on trapeze with two female performers hanging from his bicycle, April 1948

    Ralph Morse for LIFE 

     
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  4. Notes: 41 / 1 year ago  from bookmarklet
    Ilse Bing * , Trapeze artists, Ringling Brothers & Barnum and Bailey Circus, Madison Square Garden, New York, 1936  sold for 4800 €

    Ilse Bing * , Trapeze artists, Ringling Brothers & Barnum and Bailey Circus, Madison Square Garden, New York, 1936 

    sold for 4800 €

     
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  5. Notes: 227 / 1 year ago  from bookmarklet
    Brassaï, Au cirque Medrano, 1932  from RMN [ more Brassai, more circus ]

    Brassaï, Au cirque Medrano, 1932 

    from RMN [ more Brassai, more circus ]

     
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  6. Notes: 33 / 1 year ago 

    First Sorrow

     A trapeze artist—this art, practiced high in the vaulted domes of the great variety theaters, is admittedly one of the most difficult humanity can achieve—had so arranged his life that, as long as he kept working in the same building, he never came down from his trapeze by night or day, at first only from a desire to perfect his skill, but later because custom was too strong for him.  All his needs, very modest needs at that, were supplied by relays of attendants who watched from below and sent up and hauled down again in specially constructed containers whatever he required.  This way of living caused no particular inconvenience to the theatrical people, except that, when other turns were on the stage, his being still up aloft, which could not be dissembled, proved somewhat distracting, as also the fact that, although at such times he mostly kept very still, he drew a stray glance here and there from the public.  Yet the management overlooked this, because he was an extraordinary and unique artist.  And of course they recognized that this mode of life was no mere prank, and that only in this way could he really keep himself in constant practice and his art at the pitch of its perfection.

    from Erstes Leid, written between 1921 in 1922 by Franz Kafka [full story]

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  7. Notes: 70 / 1 year ago  from bookmarklet
    Two Men on a Trapeze, c. 1955 by Weegee

    Two Men on a Trapeze, c. 1955 by Weegee

     
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  8. Notes: 527 / 1 year ago  from bookmarklet
    Repetition, from  Trapeze, 1956 Carol Reed film photo by Raymond Voinquel [also] from RMN

    Repetition, from  Trapeze, 1956 Carol Reed film

    photo by Raymond Voinquel [also]

    from RMN

     
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  9. Notes: 404 / 1 year ago  from bookmarklet
    Fern Andra in Des Lebens ungemischte Freude,1917 Cigaretten Bilderdienst Altona-Bahrenfeld (Vom Werden deutscher Filmkunst. Der Stümme Film; 28 from Performing Arts [also here]

    Fern Andra in Des Lebens ungemischte Freude,1917

    Cigaretten Bilderdienst Altona-Bahrenfeld (Vom Werden deutscher Filmkunst. Der Stümme Film; 28

    from Performing Arts [also here]

     
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  10. Notes: 68 / 2 years ago  from bookmarklet
    Roland Topor, c. 1970 by Jacques Prayer  from Ader [This one’s for 50 watts;]

    Roland Topor, c. 1970 by Jacques Prayer

     from Ader [This one’s for 50 watts;]

     
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  11. Notes: 83 / 2 years ago 
    Antoinette Concello from Circus Anonymous

    Antoinette Concello

    from Circus Anonymous

     
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  12. Notes: 46 / 2 years ago  from bookmarklet
    Jeu du Trapeze Aerien, Paris, 1949 by Robert Doisneau from Night exhibition @  Bruce Silverstein Gallery

    Jeu du Trapeze Aerien, Paris, 1949 by Robert Doisneau

    from Night exhibition @  Bruce Silverstein Gallery

     
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  13. Notes: 12 / 3 years ago  from bookmarklet
    ladies with cameras: Ilse Bing one more from Circus series:Trapeze Artist [ Madison Square Garden,NY] 1936 via Luminous-Lint

    ladies with cameras: Ilse Bing

    one more from Circus series:Trapeze Artist

    [ Madison Square Garden,NY] 1936

    via Luminous-Lint

     
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