Art Deco

1928 Edward Steichen, Lee Miller modeling Marie-Christiane hat and dress and jewelry by Black, Starr and Frost.

1930 Man Ray, Lee Miller.

Lee Miller au Collier d'Éponges, Juan-les-Pins, hiver 1930-1931, printed later.

c. 1930 Man Ray, Lee Miller

Sotheby’s

1930s Pierre Auradon, Roses.

1935 William Vanderson, Bloodhound, Champion Leo of Reynalton, is cuddled by a rather worried looking little girl. Getty Images.

1936 Horst P. Horst, Fashion shoot in London. 

Morning Tram, Rue de Prague, Paris. Photo by Josef Sudek, 1924

Koyo Kageyama, Walking Together, August 1934. 

This photograph, taken in August of 1934, depicts a fashionable young couple strolling along Watanabebashi Bridge in front of the Osaka Asahi Newspaper Building, one of the representative modernist buildings of the early Shōwa era. The work has become a defining image of the sophisticated urban lifestyle that permeated Japan’s major cities in the early 1930s. Mizusawa Tsutomu, director of the Kanagawa Prefectural Museum of Modern Art, describes it as a “masterwork that anyone would include among Kageyama Kōyō’s representative [photographs] for it reaches a [high] level of accomplishment with the reserved juxtaposition of light and dark, the clear, pared-down composition, [an image] that it is not an exaggeration to describe as the essence of prewar modernism.” Professor Samuel C. Morse, 2015. (x)

Kageyama Kōyō (1907-1981) photographed people in Tokyo, Japan during the Shōwa imperial period (1926–1989). This tumultuous time in the country’s history spans 1923’s Great Kantō Earthquake, a depression, rapid militarization, near annihilation during World War II, and the challenges and triumphs generated by the prosperity of the post-war period. (x)