beards
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Max Slevogt working
Max Slevogt working. Looks like he’s etching?
Photo by Hugo Erfurth, 1921. Silver bromide gelatin. More info. -
Manliest Beauty 1877
“Now then, Mossoo, your Form is of the Manliest Beauty, and you are altogether a most attractive Object; but you’ve stood there long enough. So jump in and have done with it!”
Cartoon by George du Maurier from Punch. (He was also the father of Sylvia Llewelyn Davies and grandfather of the five boys who inspired J.M. Barrie‘s Peter Pan, fact fans!)
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Brighton Bathers 1891
Members of the Brighton Swimming Club photographed by Norman & Co. outside their club-house at No..231 King’s Road Arches in March 1891.
More info here, again thanks to Duckie for the site tip.
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Brighton Bathers 1863
An amazingly informal early photo of the Brighton Swimming Club c. 1863. probably by Benjamin William Botham. Funny thing is hipsters still pull funny poses like that one guy in Brighton, 150 years later…I suspect he was trying to do an ‘Indian’ or Buddhist/yoga pose – which seems incongruous for the time but as the site explains, it otherwise seems genuine.
More info here. (thanks to Duckie for the tip) -
Large vintage
via Flash & Footle who are one of the few left still posting in my old Tumblr feed – rest have gone dark bar a few art blogs, and of course a few porn blogs which Tumblr hasn’t spotted. Unsurprisingly.
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Georges Ernest Boulanger by Nadar.
Shot himself a few months after his mistress died, Marguerite Bonnemain which wikipedia tells us:
“ She became the lover of the French general and minister Boulanger and died in his arms in July 1891. At his request ‘A bientôt’ (‘See you soon’) was engraved on her tomb. Two months later he shot himself in front of her grave and ‘Ai-je bien pu vivre deux mois et demi sans toi?’ (‘Did I really live two and a half months without you?’) was added to the epitaph.“
Also rumoured to have frequented the infamous male brothel in Cleveland Street, London. He looks the naughty type.
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CDV by W. Britton. Barnstaple.
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Another one to the add to the ‘this could be someone today’ pile. Well maybe apart from that style of suit which you couldn’t get now at all,
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Riomeris: portrait of bearded man with a scarf.
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Dr. Richard Maurice Bucke, Canadian psychiatrist and friend of Walt Whitman.