I Sing The Body Electric

Françoise Hardy photographed by Jean-Marie Périer, c. 1964.

Sister Rosetta Tharpe was born in Cotton Plant, Arkansas in 1915. When she was six years old she joined her mom as a performer in a traveling evangelical troupe. Billed initially as a “singing and guitar playing miracle,” she would eventually take on a new title, “The Godmother of Rock and Roll.”

La Notte (1961)

Actors on the set of Sofia Coppola’s Marie Antoinette.

Corset ‘Noeud’ - Broderies Florales - 1902

Isabelle Antoinette Barones Sloet van Toutenburg by Nicaise de Keyser (1852), details

Shots taken by Alfred Cheney Johnston (1885-1971). Famous for his photos taken of the so-called Ziegfeld Follie showgirls, and actors and actresses of theatre and movie. The Ziegfeld Follies were a series of theater productions on Broadway (1907-1931).

Oiran: courtesans in Japan