Word: girls
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Artagnan. Cardinal Richelieu, crafty, red-robed, plots endlessly to separate the four swashbucklers who at night sleep side by side in one wide bed and finally die side by side in one battle. Under the window ledge a saddle waits; one leap, and rescue drums toward the girl (Marguerite de la Motte) who, drooping like a flower, dies in his arms. First swordsman of France, D'Artagnan snatches from the dark tower by the river the betrayed king with his sad, muzzled face. Best shot: the four singing swashbucklers returning from...
Romanticist: But you forget that the terrific outlay on gown of the modern girl is, in the long run, more than equivalent to the sums which the boy friend spends...
Realist: I defy you to prove it. A fellow likes a girl for her own sake and not for a lot of glad rags...
Romanticist: I don't know about that, and anyhow that isn't the way the girl figures...Besides, there's something else, the most important thing, in fact... We're not living in the age of chivalry, but when I go out, part of the fun is in knowing that I'm doing the escorting. Don't deny it, you feel that way yourself...
...grace of sewing fingers, the slopes and rotundities of the nude. These he rendered with the infinite photographic spectrum, ranging from dead white to midnight blackness through numberless greys, catching both gleams and shadows. Sometimes he intellectualized this sensuous process, as in his symbolic expression of a short-skirted girl-a picture of a leg superimposed upon the dim image of a face. There is nothing documentary about Stieglitz photographs; they tell no stories, perpetuate no events. They are studies in pure form and tone...