black dress, etc, etc ... i've collected thousands of images of "wimmin in white", and quite a few of "red dress" ... but i guess the black dress has always been what smart wimmin aspire to look their very best in ...

felix thiollier .... succesful factory owner, retired at 37 ... to become a photographer, amongst other things !

i'm guessing the woman is felix thiollier's daughter, emma

Physical grace. Occasionally the World Stands Still for me when someone enters the scene who is perfectly poised, agile and purposeful in movement, and whose every movement seem to flow. Once, in a shabby club in Bristol, a big girl in an ugly sweater walked to the centre of the floor and turned a triple pirouette, and then walked off again. On Brighton beach, I saw a tiny sinewy man stand on his hands and “walk” on them down the steep shingle into the sea. A new drinking partner in a beer garden, when light-heartedly challenged by me, turned six or seven cartwheels until she came to a halt standing in a bed of roses. Sometimes such moments coincide with the camera shutter … I think, for instance, this might be one …

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F%C3%A9lix_Thiollier


http://noms.rues.st.etienne.free.fr/rues/thiollier-felix.html


https://artblart.com/2014/02/28/exhibition-felix-thiollier-1842-1914-photographs-at-the-musee-dorsay-paris/

shaman stuff from south america

https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/309407

melvin sokolsky bubbles

https://www.popphoto.com/american-photo/melvin-sokolskys-iconic-fashion-bubbles/