Showing posts with label Biographies. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Biographies. Show all posts

Wednesday, August 27, 2014

Anna Pavlova

Anna Pavlova was born on February 12, 1881, in St. Petersburg, Russia. she made her ballet debut in 1899 and quickly became prima ballerina. Her breakthrough performance was in The Dying Swan in 1905, which became her main role. She joined the Ballet Russe in 1909 and formed her own company in 1911. Contracting double pneumonia while on tour, Pavlova died in 1931.
 

Info from - http://www.biography.com/people/anna-pavlova-9435343

Friday, August 22, 2014

The spirit photographs of William Hope

Sorry about the long wait my internet was shut down after I moved homes and didn't take the time to get internet until now. Anyway her are some photographs  of "ghosts".“These photographs of ‘spirits’ are taken from an album of photographs unearthed in a Lancashire second-hand and antiquarian bookshop by one of the National Media Museum’s curators. They were taken by a controversial medium called William Hope (1863-1933).

The spirit photographs of William Hope  A photograph of Welsh mediums and brothers Joe and Will Thomas.   The Thomas family claimed that the image superimposed over the sitters was the only photograph of their deceased grandmother in existence. Hope, however, would have used an existing photograph of a woman to create the illusion.  The spirit photographs of William Hope
I know these aren't really ghosts but they are freaking scary to look over on at midnight.

- Info and photos from retronaut.com

Wednesday, June 4, 2014

Bunny Yeager and Betty Page

“Oh, she was beautiful! She had beautiful hair, with a natural sheen, and never a hair out of place. A great figure, so tan,” Yeager remembered of Page in a Miami -thedailybeast.com
Bunny was the one who took the ravishing photos of betty in the leopard print bathing suit. Bunny 
Believed the female figure could stand on its own and it didn't need tight corsets and body restricting
suits. She had a knack for getting pretty women to take off their cloths, She said it was because "It's Easier For a woman to ask a girl to take off her cloths". in 1954 she and Betty Page would go to little Africa U.S.A. It was their Yeager created the iconic shot of Betty in the leopard suit frolicking with leopards.
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