Savoie Cat by Dora Maar (1935)

Dora Maar, Savoie Cat, (Chat Savoie) I 1935 via

Dora Maar Savoie Cat, (Chat Savoie) II 1935 via

Dora Maar, Savoie Cat, (Chat Savoie) III 1935 via

“Cat and I” by Wanda Wulz (1932)

Wanda Wulz, Cat and I, 1932 via

60s Celebrity portraits by Terry O’Neill

Terence Patrick O’Neill CBE (1938 – 2019) was a British photographer, known for documenting the fashions, styles, and celebrities of the 1960s.

O’Neill’s photographs capture his subjects candidly or in unconventional settings.His work has been featured in numerous exhibitions.

He was awarded an honorary fellowship of the Royal Photographic Society in 2004 and the society’s Centenary Medal in 2011. His work is held in the collection of the National Portrait Gallery, London.

French actress Catherine Deneuve dressed in white and surrounded by flowers in a scene from “Mayerling,” a historical romance directed by Terence Young, Terry O’Neill, 1968 via

French actress Brigitte Bardot in Deauville, 1968. It is the first time she meets British actor Sean Connery before the filming of ‘Shalako’, directed by Edward Dmytryk, Terry O’Neill, 1968 via

Marianne Faithfull by Terry O’Neill, 1967 via

The Rolling Stones singer Mick Jagger posing in a fur parka, with a fur trimmed hood, 1964, by Terry O’Neill via

The Beatles by Terry O’Neill, 1964 via

Life Of the Rich And Famous by Slim aarons (1950s)

1950: Guests at a fancy dress party held at the Romanoff Restaurant in Hollywood, Los Angeles. (Slim Aarons) via

1952: Guests at a cocktail party given by Mrs Gary Cooper (actress Veronica Cooper, aka Sandra Shaw) in Beverly Hills, California. She is on the left, seated on the couch with Mr Van Herbick and Jack Warner’s daughter. Lighting a cigarette on the right is Ginger Macrae. (Slim Aarons) via

31st December 1952: From left to right, Slim Hawks (nee Nancy Gross, former wife of director Howard Hawks) chatting with Vogue editor Diana Vreeland (1903 – 1989) and her husband Reed at Kitty Miller’s New Year’s Eve party in Park Avenue, New York. (Slim Aarons) via

1954: Austrian actress Mara Lane enjoys waiter service in the pool at the Sands Hotel, Las Vegas. (Slim Aarons) via

1954: Actress Eden Hartford, sister to Dee, in the Hollywood home she shared with her husband, comedian Groucho Marx. (Slim Aarons) via

Circa 1955: Diners in a grand ballroom during a fashion show. (Slim Aarons) via

1955: Cosmetics queen Helena Rubinstein (1870 – 1965), third from right, at her Park Avenue, New York apartment with her husband Prince Archil Gourielli Tchkonia, enjoying cocktails with friends on the terrace. (Slim Aarons) via

1955: Spanish artist Salvador Dali (1904 – 1989) enjoying a cup of coffee with his wife Gala (1894 – 1982) on a terrace at the Ritz Hotel, Madrid. (Slim Aarons) via

1956: Swedish model Inga Lindgren, wife of Argentinian finance minister Ceferino Alonso Irigoyen, wears designs by Vera Stewart with her standard poodles Ajax and Wacky on Park Avenue, New York, (Slim Aarons) via

1957: Film stars (left to right) Clark Gable (1901 – 1960), Van Heflin (1910 – 1971), Gary Cooper (1901 – 1961) and James Stewart (1908 – 1997) enjoy a joke at a New Year’s party held at Romanoff’s in Beverly Hills. (Slim Aarons Estate Edition) via

1958: Athina Livanos Onassis (Tina Onassis) the first wife of Greek shipowner Aristotle Onassis relaxing by the swimming pool aboard their yacht, the ‘Christina’ in Monte Carlo.(Photo by Slim Aarons) via

1959: Countess Peter Jean-Baptiste de Manio (left) and Mary-Beth Turner playing backgammon by a swimming pool in Palm Beach, Florida (Slim Aarons) via

New York by Fred Stein (1940s)

Fred Stein (1909 – 1967) was a street photographer in Paris and New York after he was forced to flee his native Germany by the Nazi threat in the early 1930s. He explored the new creative possibilities of photography, capturing spontaneous scenes from life on the street.

Fred Stein, “Little Italy”, New York, 1943 via

Fred Stein, “American All”, New York, 1943 via

Fred Stein, “Orchad Beach”, New York, 1946 via

Fred Stein, “Newspaper Hat”, New York, 1946 via

Portraits by Amercian Photographer James Arthur (ca. 1900s)

Woman with a miniature by James Arthur, 1898 via

Woman at a piano by James Arthur, 1898 via

Woman with a spinning wheel by James Arthur, 1899 via

Woman looking in a mirror by James Arhur, c. 1900 via

Woman with vase of flowers by James Arthur, 1899 via

Woman wearing a plumed hat by James Arthur, c. 1900 via

Seated woman drinking tea by James Arthur, c. 1900 via

Woman on a tree trunk by James Arthur, c. 1900 via

Girls in Front of Mirrors by Lady Clementina Hawarden

Clementina Maude, Viscountess Hawarden, née Clementina Elphinstone Fleeming (1822 – 1865) commonly known as Lady Clementina Hawarden, was a noted English amateur portrait photographer of the Victorian Era.

She turned to photography in late 1856 or, probably, in early 1857, whilst living on the family estate in Dundrum, Co. Tipperary, Ireland. A move to London in 1859 allowed her to set up a studio in her elegant home in South Kensington. There she took many of the characteristic portraits for which she is principally remembered. Many include her adolescent daughters Isabella Grace, Clementina and Florence Elizabeth. The furniture and characteristic decor of an upper-class London home was removed in order to create mise-en-scene images and theatrical poses within the first floor of her home. Hawarden produced albumen prints from wet-plate collodion negatives, a method commonly used at the time

Lady Clementina Hawarden, unknown date via

Lady Clementina Hawarden, unknown date via

Lady Clementina Hawarden, unknown date via

Lady Clementina Hawarden, unknown date via

Lady Clementina Hawarden, unknown date via

Lady Clementina Hawarden, unknown date via

Lady Clementina Hawarden, unknown date via

Snowman (1853/54)

Snowman, Wales, probably by Mary Dillwyn or Thereza Llewelyn, about 1853/54 via

A Collection of Portraits by Boston Studio “Southworth & Hawes” (1850s)

American photographic studio Southworth & Hawes was established in Boston, Massachusetts in 1843 when Albert Sands Southworth, a druggist, and Josiah Johnson Hawes, a painter, joined together to open a daguerreotype studio. Though portraits were the bulk of the firm’s production, they also produced landscape views.

From 1849 to 1851 Southworth left the studio to travel to California. He returned in 1851 and renewed the partnership with Hawes.

In 1853 Hawes purchased the rights to John Adams Whipple’s process for making paper prints called crystalotypes and the firm began to produce them.

In 1861 the partnership was dissolved. Both Southworth and Hawes continued to operate separate studios in Boston, Massachusetts.

Unknown woman by Southworth and Hawes, ca. 1850s via

Unknown woman by Southworth and Hawes, ca. 1850s via

Miss Hodges of Salem, MET, 1850 via

Lola Montez by Southworth & Hawes, 1851 via

The Letter by Southworth & Hawes, ca. 1850 via

Unknown bride by Southworth and Hawes, ca. 1850s via

Albert Sands Southworth – Untitled, ca. 1851 – 1854 via

A Collection of Victorian Era Photos by Roger Fenton (1850s)

Roger Fenton, Lady on Horseback, MET, 1850s via

The Billiard Room, Mentmore by Roger Fenton, 1858 via

Bolton Abbey by Roger Fenton, 1850s via

Wharfe and Pool, Below the Strid, MET, by Roger Fenton, 1854 via

Queen Victoria and Prince Albert by Roger Fenton, 1854 via

Queen Victoria and Prince Albert by Roger Fenton, 1854 via

Victoria, Princess Royal and her sister Princess Alice by Roger Fenton, 1855 via