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Lovely photo,all of these :)

this is a beauty!

This photograph is featured on Indicommons.org as among the Best of the Commons.

Beautiful image. I'm curious if Ruth St. Denis is wearing a body suit here or whether this is an airbrushed studio shot, and whether she ever publicly performed with this costuming? Anyone know? I'm recalling from Martha Graham's biography (she started out as a Denishawn dancer) the anecdote where Graham was performing exotic dance numbers during a touring vaudeville show which was raided in Chicago--the policemen were checking the costumes very closely for being too revealing and one of the showgirls pointed towards Martha and said what about her? And the policeman replied, "That's OK. She's Art!"

Pretty hot for 1910. Added to commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Ruth_St._Denis --and see en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruth_St._Denis for more about her career. Thanks for posting these!

lovely

this is such an AWESOME photograph,sooo clean!stunning.

although ruth in this photo is not in a traditional stance to receive worship, the way her feet are highlighted holds significance--whether it was intentional or not. she is depicting radha, an incarnation of the hindu goddess lakshmi. a worshiper would touch her feet for a blessing and the goddesses purity would be transffered to the individual despite the belief that feet are one of the more profane parts of the body. they are still more pure than the worshiper, in this case the viewer.

Muy bella

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i'm in love <3

oooh cest superbeau!

Truly stunning!

Hi, I'm an admin for a group called JEWELLERY-ISH, and we'd love to have this added to the group!

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