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Dixie Evans aka. “The Marilyn Monroe Of Burlesque”..
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Lois DeFee aka. “Queen Of The Amazons”..
Part of a promo photo series shot in the early-40’s..
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Sally Lane (and her Monkey)
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Taffey O’Neil aka. “Miss Heavy Equipment”..
Page from a short pictorial/article on Ms. O’Neil, featured in an unidentified Men’s Magazine.....
The Art of Burlesque: Neo-burlesque portraits by Karl Giant.
The Art of Burlesque: Katharina Bosse’s New Burlesque portraits.
The Art of Burlesque: Burlesque house on Skid Row, photo by Alfred Eisenstaedt. Los Angeles, California, 1936.
The Art of Burlesque: ‘The Gold Painted Stripper, 1950’ by Weegee (1899-1968)
The Art of Burlesque: ‘Girlie Show,’ by Edward Hopper ( 1882-1967)
The Art of Burlesque: Susan Meiselas’ Carnival Strippers.
Susan Meiselas spent her summers photographing and interviewing women who performed striptease for small town carnivals in New England, Pennsylvania, and South Carolina. As she followed the girl shows from town to town, she portrayed the dancers on stage and off, photographing their public performances as well as their private lives. She also taped interviews with the dancers, their boyfriends, the show managers, and paying customers. Meiselas’ frank description of the lives of these women brought a hidden world to public attention.
Produced during the early years of the women’s movement, Carnival Strippers reflects the struggle for identity and self-esteem that characterized a complex era of change.
The Art of Burlesque: ‘New Gotham Burlesque, 1931’ by Reginald Marsh (1898-1954)
From Wikipedia:
The drawings of burlesque and vaudeville acts Marsh made in the 1920s for the New York Daily News are among the first of his many images of popular theater. Such entertainments flourished throughout the country and were available all over New York City. The burlesque that Marsh captured can be described as raunchy and vulgar, but also comedic and satiric. Marsh’s drawings depict chorus girls, clowns, theater goers and strippers. Burlesque was “the theater of the common man; it expressed the humor, and fantasies of the poor, the old, and the ill-favored.” Marsh continued his burlesque sketches during his trip to Paris in 1925.
In 1930 Marsh was well off; he was successful in his career and had inherited a portion of his grandfather’s money. Nonetheless, the lower class members of society were his preferred subject matter, as he contended that “well bred people are no fun to paint”.
The Art of Burlesque: Cynthia “The Body” Sinclair, by Glenn Barr
The Art of Burlesque: Everything Old is New Again! Vintage chorus girls (top) via lifeisrosie; “Shim-Shamettes Beauty Chorus” (bottom), by Jian Bastille in 1999.
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