mastodon 4.7.3Engineer. Reads #SFF. Eats #cheese. Runs on #archlinux. Sometimes posts #photography and #microfiction.
This is one of my favorite pictures. It feels like it was taken yesterday… but it was taken in a Paris public garden nearly a hundred years ago. Everything feels modern: the composition, the casualness, the daring clothes, haircuts, and accessories.
The colors are original: this is an #autochrome, using the first process for color #photography invented by the Lumière brothers in 1903.
The women are unknown, but I can't help wondering how they fared a few years later in nazi-occupied Paris.
I recently found this picture, taken in the 1930s at Le Monocle, one of the lesbian nightclubs in Paris at the time.
It's a great picture, with a lot of different people, absorbed in their own merriment, and at the center, my new reference for the concept of badass.
I don't know who she is, but she deserves a long, adventurous backstory -- maybe involving mutiny aboard an airship, spies, and broken hearts.
She's the only one looking at the camera, so the story is definitely about her.