Art Deco Girls

Art Deco girls

Art Deco Girls George Glasser Art Deco Girls was salvaged from a collection of photographs called "Brothel Girls" someone gave me thinking it might have some material I could use for another project. At first glance, all I saw was deteriorating photographs done by bad photographers that should have been relegated to the dust bin of history. However, I hit on one image I liked and by chance, that lead to the series of images below. After looking at literally thousands of photographs on the disk, I found nine on the disk that I liked because to me, the girls, although not professional or the 'ideal women' personified an inherent feeling for the Art Deco era. I proceeded to extract the girls, clean-up the images as much as possible, and then create backdrops that I felt were sympathetic to the girls and the Art Deco period. The one girl I included who wasn't in the "Brothel Girls" collection was the definitive 'Art Deco Girl,' Josephine Baker. I hope you enjoy looking at them, as I am absolutely sure they would be thrilled to once again have someone's attention because that's why they posed for the photographs eighty or ninety years ago. Click on the images below for an enlarged views in a new window
Josephine Baker	Sarah
Phoebe	Michele
Violet	Sondra
Ophelia	Carmen
Alison	Lydia

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