Chasing Claire de Lune

beauty

Alla Nazimova and Rudolph Valentino in Camille c.1921

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La duchesse de Zoé au bal des invertis du “Magic-City,” c1932 (Brassaï)

The best way to think about reality, I had decided, was to get as far away from it as possible.

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—	Haruki Murakami, The Wind-up Bird Chronicle

…..anticipation

Camille, 1936

The IT Girl…

Clara Bow

Mary Pickford

Edward Steichen ( 1920s).

At the Egyptian Oscar party. Then the Marmont.

After you shoot for the moon…

1910s paper moon postcard

Daaahling….

Portrait, c1935 (Man Ray)

Portrait, c1929 (Eli Lotar)

Sylvia Bataille et Marguerite Renoir, Une partie de campagne, 1936 (Eli Lotar)