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Portion of a late 1930s Charles Guyette photograph.
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Group of French Illustrations |
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There are a number of graphic representations (illustrations or photographs) of bdsm from the 1920s and 1930s, most often from Europe and most of those from France. The majority of these representations are of females in submissive postures, though examples of dominant females with submissive males do exist. Bernard Montorgueil's illustrations, as published in Gilles Néret's Erotica Universalis: From Pompeii to Picasso (Köln: Taschen, 2005), were an influence on the story, indirectly and directly. Biederer/Ostra studio in Paris, working in the 1930s, created images of the more prevalently shown submissive female. In the United States, Charles Guyette was active in New York City in the 1930s and very early 1940s, selling fetish, bondage and S&M photographs. To the left is a Charles Guyette photo that I have.
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