Adelaide Fanny Louise Barber by Alexander Bassano late 1860s, early 1870s

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Yvonne Mertens by Alexander Bassano

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Yvonne Mertens by Alexander Bassano 1930

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Hedy Lamarr by Clarence Sinclair Bull (MGM, 1938)

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Hedy Lamarr (9 November 1913 – 19 January 2000) was an Austro-American actress and mathematician, celebrated for her great beauty, who was a major contract star of MGM's "Golden Age." Mathematically talented, Lamarr and composer George Antheil invented an early technique for spread spectrum communications and frequency hopping, necessary for wireless communication from the pre-computer age to the present day. When she worked with Max Reinhardt in Berlin, he called her the "most beautiful woman in Europe" due to her "strikingly dark exotic looks," a sentiment widely shared by her audiences and critics. She gained fame after starring in Gustav Machatý's Ecstasy, a film which featured closeups of her character during orgasm in one scene, as well as full frontal nude shots of her in another scene, both very unusual for the socially conservative period in which the bulk of her career took place.

Clarence Bull (1896-1979), usually credited as "Clarence Sinclair Bull", was one of the great portrait photographers who worked for the movie studios during the "Golden Age of Hollywood". He was head of the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer stills department for nearly forty years.

Coluche & Jean Rochefort by Jeanloup Sieff 1975

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Michel Gérard Joseph Colucci (born October 28, 1944 in Paris, France; died June 19, 1986 in Opio, Alpes-Maritimes, France), better known as Coluche, was a French comedian and actor, famous for his irreverent sense of humour. Colucci adopted "Coluche" as a stage name at 26, when he began his entertainment career. He became known for his irreverent attitude towards politics and the “Establishment,” and he incorporated this into much of his material. He was one of the first major comedians to regularly use profanities as a source of humor on French television.

Jean Rochefort (born 29 April 1930) is a French actor, with a career that has spanned over five decades.

Bertha & Edwige by Jeanloup Sieff 1972

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Alfred Hitchcock for Harper's Bazaar by Jeanloup Sieff 1962

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