French Frills: Fotos circa 1920s ~ 1930s

French Frills: Fotos circa 1920s ~ 1930s

A selection from the depths of the digital archives. A "best of" medium (5" x 7") and large format (7" x 9"), circa 1920s and 1930s, legs and lingerie images by notable Parisian photographers. All photographs silver emulsion prints. Photograph above, unknown.

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The "C" maker's marque is the Ostra/Biederer Studio. This photograph, used for the cover for an American edition of Anais Nin's erotic prose, has become iconic as a representation of the period.

PC Paris stylized studio setting.

Unknown, possibly Albert Wyndham

Albert Wyndham Studio, aka Film Art Studio

Photograph by Saad

Yva Richard Studio, from a fetish series focused on legs, shoes and stockings.

Unknown, possibly Studio 35

PC Paris

Albert Wyndham Studio, aka Film Art Studio

Studio 35 Diana Slip lingerie

PC Paris

Yva Richard Studio

Unknown

Brassai for the Diana Slip Lingerie Company

Two women acting out a boudoir scene. Grundworth photograph.

Albert Wyndham Studio, aka Film Art Studio

Albert Wyndham Studio, aka Film Art Studio

Albert Wyndham Studio, aka Film Art Studio

Albert Wyndham Studio, aka Film Art Studio

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Grundworth 1920s Parisian Photographe: Derriere Lover

 

The Parisian world of clandestine, erotic photography has many twists and turns and more than a few "men of mystery" working behind the camera. Among their ranks is the photographer known only as Grundworth. Although there is much evidence of his contributions to the genre during 1920s, unabashedly displaying his fetish for full figured women, particularly their marvelous round asses, nothing is known about him.

He also admired silk stocking'ed legs, garters, garter belts, panties, frou-frou slips and lingerie; as well as outdoor exhibitionists and maids and submissive mistresses!! Here is a miscellany of postcard size images.

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Albert Arthur Allen American Nudes 'teens/'20s

Albert Arthur Allen created a very large body of work devoted to the female figure. He worked in the San Francisco bay area, publishing his Allo Nudes catalogs offering for sale his original photographs appearing first in circa 1917. The images, reminiscent of the later days of the photo-secession, featured lovely, youthful female models posed idyllically outdoors. Posted here are images from deep in my archives.

In the 1920s Allen shifted his focus to studio nudes creating his exceptional, modern style series of portfolios including Premiere Nudes, The Sheik, Exotic Nudes, Sex Appeal and A Night In A Harem. Although some his most memorable images are from his later period, especially the Premiere Nudes montaged images of women posed together, his early work retains a beautiful, simple eroticism that was not seen during an era of chaste and demure photographic nudes. Here are more images by Allen. 

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