“Loie Fuller (1862–1928) was a pioneer of both modern dance and theatrical lighting techniques. Fuller combined her choreography with silk costumes illuminated by multi-coloured lighting of her own design.”
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Nothing like a vintage smooch to start up a Saturday morning.
Thomas Edison, 1900.
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From an awesome Life photo series, 1937.
“Ex-Burlesque stripper, Professor June St. Clair, sexily undressing as a typical wife clumsily disrobes next to her during a demonstration on how wives should undress in front of their husbands’ in the bedroom, for a class at the Allen Gilbert School of Undressing.”
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This image reminds me of one of my favorite books from my pre-teen years: Lady Cottington’s Pressed Fairy Book.
From How To Be A Retronaut:
‘A Scottish adventurer, inventor, and photographer named Neville Colmore claimed to have constructed a device capable of “…parting the veil of Faery…”. The device, which he called the “Spectobarathrum”, produced beautiful photo graphic plates he called “fatagravures”, through a now lost process. The original “Spectobarathrum” along with all of the images he claimed to have made were believed destroyed in a fire.
‘The images were first made public in the 1890′s. They were presented in scientific lectures and were by and large ignored’
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