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help identifying props?
Fri, 30 Jun 2006 23:25:54 -0700
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Vic...
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Hi. I am writing about an early 20th Century German photographer and
would like to know what to call some of his props (furniture etc.). I
don't need to be absolutely specific because these things are not the
point. I just want to have a fairly correct name to call them when I
mention them in one picture or another. I've put some images of these
at:
The first one is a blanket or rug that appears on this couch. At
present I'm saying "patterned blanket", but something more correctly
specific would be good. Is it, for example, some eastern design?
mike wilcox...
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You mean like this one ? ;~))))
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mike wilcox...
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You mean like this one? ;~))))
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Vic...
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Anything more specific? The word "Turkish" originally came into my
head, but when I looked at sites about Turkish rugs, I saw that there
are hundreds or maybe thousands of kinds of them.
vic
Janice Hudnall...
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Modern Mary Janes are very practical and comfortable. They are known for
being 'little girl shoes'. As far as being approriate for dancing,
practical and 'ladies attire' probably shouldn't be said in the same
sentence. Reference bustles, corsets, stiletto heels. I remember reading
somewhere that Victorian shoes were worn on either foot: quess it simplified
getting dressed in the mornings.
sugarwind...
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OK, thanks. They didn't look very good for dancing to me either. I'm
just wondering why so many of the models wore the same shoes. Maybe the
photographer just liked them.
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sugarwind...
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Oh! I did a web-search image search on "Mary Janes shoes" and found almost
10,000 pictures of shoes that don't look like these. If you search
under "Moccasins" you'll see 20,000 that are pretty close. But ... I
can't imagine dancing very well in Moccasins either....
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Kris Baker...
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You're researching the photographer; did he operate a studio and
take "posed" pictures?
sugarwind...
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Yes, these are all studio pictures but the things in them just seem to
be things he got from different places. I'm just wondering what to call
them.
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Then there are several chairs etc. The one I'm calling Jugendstil Bench
may be good enough, but in case anyone can identify what kind of bench
(e.g. the name of the artisan or workshop), that would be better. The
others are different.
Then there is a composite of a number of pictures of the same shoes that
many of the performers wear.
So ... any ideas? Thanks.
-Vic
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