Le Journal de la Photographie

Charles Baudelaire a few years before his death, by Étienne Carjat. Their lack of money and their rejection by a large part of bourgeois society could not have improved relations between the poet and his mistress Jeanne Duval © adoc-photos

Charles Baudelaire a few years before his death, by Étienne Carjat. Their lack of money and their rejection by a large part of bourgeois society could not have improved relations between the poet and his mistress Jeanne Duval © adoc-photos

Muses Charles Baudelaire a few years before his death, by Étienne Carjat. Their lack of money and their rejection by a large part of bourgeois society could not have improved relations between the poet and his mistress Jeanne Duval © adoc-photos Muses Muses (Virginia de Castiglione) Photograph by Pierre-Louis Pierson, c. 1865. The passions that led to the fall of the countess were essentially self-centeredness, egocentrism, and narcissism. © collection Christian Kempf / adoc-photos Muses The countess Virginia de Castiglione oversaw every last detail of her photographic sittings: viewpoint, costume, attitude, composition type, final format, even the title, and was sometimes inspired by the opera or theater. Pierre-Louis Pierson executed these directives to the letter, as in this s... Muses Portrait of Fyodor Mikhaylovich Dostoevsky by Constantin Chapiro, c. 1870. © adoc-photos Muses Portrait of Alma Mahler taken in 1920 by an unknown photographer. Gustav Klimt fell under her youthful charm when she was seventeen: “Alma is beautiful, intelligent, witty. She possesses everything a man could possibly desire, and that in abundance. I believe she’ll be a mistress among women wher... Muses Rilke in June 1919. He spent part of the spring of that year with Lou. His health soon deteriorated fatally and he died at the Valmont sanatorium, in Switzerland, on December 29, 1926, in all probability still in love with Lou © adoc-photos. Muses Yvonne Printemps in Sacha Guitry’s play Désiré, which premiered at the Théâtre Édouard-VII in April 1927. Its author adapted it for the cinema following their separation some ten years later. © Rue des Archives / Tal Muses Along with the image on page 152, this photograph of Marlene Dietrich was taken by Don English for the movie Shanghai Express, directed in 1932 by Josef von Sternberg. The first was used as the poster for the Forty-Fifth International Cannes Film Festival in 1992. © Snap Photo / Rue des Archives Muses Muses, Women Who Inspire (cover) published by Flammarion