British; literature addict; soon to be sporting an Eton crop. Bookworm should be my middle name. I worship at the altar of Brienne of Tarth; Virginia Woolf, Vita Sackville-West & the entirety of the Bloomsbury Group fascinate me beyond measure. Janet McTeer and Tom Hiddleston occupy one side of my heart, whilst Gwendoline Christie and Annie Lennox have a firm grip on the other. One day Stephen Fry *will* become Prime Minister. The Eurythmics are my religion. Nineteen years of age, with literary aspirations & a love of women & history.
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Oscar Wilde photographed by Napoleon Sarony, 1882.
These photographs were taken in January of 1882, when Wilde had first arrived in America for his year long lecture tour. All were taken in the studio of the most famous portrait photographer of the time, Canadian born Napoleon Sarony. The various furs, capes, velvet jackets, and stockings Wilde wore for the photo shoot reflected the attire he would wear to his lectures.
It certainly surprised me when I found out that the majority of Wilde’s most iconic images came from the same session, and were taken in the U.S. when Wilde had only published a yet to be produced play, Vera; or, the Nihilists, and a single book of verse (which Wilde can be seen holding in the first and second photographs).
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Carey Mulligan for Harper’s Bazaar (June 2013)
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Rock Hudson photographed by Peter Basch on the set of Giant, 1955.
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Ava Gardner, 1940s
[on her first screen test] There wasn’t a thing that I could do. I couldn’t act - I was the first to be eliminated in high school plays. I had no training whatsoever. I was just a pretty little girl. But I loved the idea, because I loved movies.
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