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Apparently, the majority of the internet insists that this is a Man Ray photo of Kiki de Montparnasse. In fact, the photo was taken by Marcus Leatherdale in 1983. The model is named Larissa and she’s wearing something fabulous by Issey Miyake. Trust me, I am an expert on such matters.

There is so much misinformation spread by the likes of Tumblr and Pinterest that I fear for the future of facts. Most people can’t be bothered with research, and wantonly re-post things in blissful ignorance, never knowing the error of their ways. You see it on Facebook all the time!

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Claude Cahun. Solange Roussot in Barbe Bleue. 1929.

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Intoxication, 1933

photo by Herbert List

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Kati Horna [Woman with Mask], Mexico, 1963

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Elenbaas, Wally

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Josephine Premice (1926-2001), the splendid Tony-nominated actress, singer and dancer was born 88 years ago today in Brooklyn, New York. Diahann Carroll, her best friend for more than four decades, called the Haitian-American aesthete “a naturally elegant woman who had exquisite taste in everything in life” and credited her with her fashion advice that she still uses. Ms. Premice was also the mother of novelist and television producer (“A Different World”) Susan Fales-Hill who wrote a fantastic memoir about her mother called “Always Wear Joy.” In this photo, Ms. Premice is seen tying the ribbon on her high-heeled shoes just before a performance in May 1951. Photo: Kurt Hutton/Stringer/Getty Images.

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Minnie Foster

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Duke looks like a lady, 1925

(that’s the Duke of Windsor, loves)

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Gladys Calthrop sketches

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Miss Marian Bixler, 1919 

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Alfred Flechtheim

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Die Pummelchens, 1935

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Florence Henri

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Osbert Sitwell and Violet Trefusis

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Portrait de femme, 1938 (Florence Henri)

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A dynamic duo from the New Objectivity party at the Bauhaus, 1925.

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Harald Kreutzberg

“I dance to express myself. I dance for my heart, blood, imagination…I do not believe that dancing should tell a story or have a meaning; nor do I feel that a dancer must draw upon his experiences to express fully dances of great joy or great sorrow…”