Le Journal de la Photographie

Marie Baronnet : The living art of Risqué Angel Carter - I left home at 16. Dad was killed in WWII, Mum worked in a circus and I was raised by Grand ma. I wanted to be a nurse in the military. I started at the Body Shop, then at Friars in Vegas, as exotic dancer, the club where Sinatra, Sammy Davis Jr., Dean Martin could be seen. In the ... Marie Baronnet : The living art of Risqué Georgette Dante - At 5 my mother made me a midget stripper. And, occasionally, a pick pocket. I became a magician. One of my favorites: looking through a scope, people were watching me lying underground with hundreds of rattlers. The snakes were stuffed with food, me with marijuana. Me and the s... Marie Baronnet : The living art of Risqué Ellion Ness - At 15 I lost my cashier’s job and got hired by Minsky, as chorus line dancer. Dixie Evans, Tempest Storm and Lili St Cyr were head liners. I went work crazy. Shows, rehersals, days and nights. I had a miscarriage. My daughter arrived. And the pill. With psychedelics, sex, drugs and ... Marie Baronnet : The living art of Risqué April March - I was cigarette girl at the Oklahoma Derby. I started to dance I was 16, not quite the legal 21. Hired in Dallas, I told my parents I was going to do tap dancing. More than taking off my cloths, I wanted to be a movie star. Lili St Cyr, Gypsy Rose lee were my inspiration. I joined t... Marie Baronnet : The living art of Risqué Delilah Jones - I came from Berlin, after WWII. We were all dancing at the Palomino. I did contortions, and a nudie “ Not tonight Henry”. North town and downtown Las Vegas were a world apart. One block down and girls were totally nude. In the 60s big boobs were the thing, the bigger the more mone... Marie Baronnet : The living art of Risqué Viva La Fever - I was playing saxophone tenor in clubs. I left Pittsburg for San Francisco and became a hippie Burlesque. The theaters were in the Mission district. I worked at the Follies with live bands. I later managed it. I was making $ 1,000 a week, no benefits. I stripped in a Midwest air f... Marie Baronnet : The living art of Risqué Terry Star - I was born in 1931. I started dancing at forty. Before that I was a hairdresser. I danced for eight or nine years and then I lost my mind. I have been abducted and beaten up. I don’t have my common sense anymore. I remember that I was always talking to the audience while I danced, an... Marie Baronnet : The living art of Risqué La Savona - I emigrated from Czechoslovakia with my husband in 1947. He was in the military. We met in Prague in a cabaret where I was acting. We moved to Indianapolis where I had my son. My real name is Svetlana but my agent, Trixie Rogers, a woman, gave me that stage name, La Savona. I loved da... Marie Baronnet : The living art of Risqué Lottie the Body - I tap danced from Syracuse NY through Senegal, Liberia, London, Paris. I loved Paris, they love black women over there. Eartha Kitt, Josephine Baker. “Chocolate bar”, the name a little girl gave me in Quebec. I made Detroit my home. $ 600.00 a week, I had a name and a body. I wa... Marie Baronnet : The living art of Risqué Val Valentine - I came from ballet and started in 1955 in Burlesque . I loved the road. To be a different person in different towns. I’d take my kids with me. I opened a lingerie store. I am a queen of Burlesque and never swung on a pole. We were in control of our lives. Men castrated by the wome... Marie Baronnet : The living art of Risqué Holiday O'Hara - I grew up in a farm. I was a good girl with braces who became a "biker chick". In 68 I was in the street of San Francisco. To be topless then was a big deal, we were never fully nude, we put stocking on our G strings and we looked like a store mannequin. The hard core shows were ... Marie Baronnet : The living art of Risqué Isis Starr - When Reagan was elected I left for Europe. Could not make it just with stripping there so I was a working girl too. When I came back to the US I kept doing it. Here men don't treat women with respect, they only think about their pleasure. I come from a Southern Baptist family, couldn... Marie Baronnet : The living art of Risqué Fannie Annie - In a world of thin I was the first stripper to perform at 450 pounds. I was a novelty and commanded top pay, $ 3,000 to $ 4,000 a week for two shows a night. Cops and big men loved me. My family owned a carnival. That’s where I learned dancing, costuming, speaking to the crowd. At ... Marie Baronnet : The living art of Risqué Bambi Jones - As a child my mum would take me to the factory and I would have to dance, that was during the Depression. They would throw coins at me. Burlesque is not sex, it's making fun of sex. The lower class making fun of the higher class. Hinda Wassau, in 1928 Baltimore was dancing between t... Marie Baronnet : The living art of Risqué Miss Toni Elling - I was working in the phone company I was so unhappy there. I did stripping for the money I didn't "pass" for a white girl, unlike Latinas. If you said I was something else then they would accept looking at your "blackness". I didn't want to pretend. My blond wig was a rebelliou... Marie Baronnet : The living art of Risqué Madame E - Go-go dancing started during the Vietnam war. I danced in Honolulu where the sailors came for a break. We kept the G string for them. I did Burlesque, then the business got nasty. I did belly dancing. I got my tattoos in Hawaii like the sailors. In the 80s I became a prostitute to get... Marie Baronnet : The living art of Risqué Kitten Natividad - I am from Ciudad Juarez, I'll never go back there. I always wanted to strip, I could show anything, I loved it. I became Miss Nude Universe in 1973 and 74 and became a star. I was also famous for my "bath tub show" at the Body Shop in Hollywood and my “bikini walks” advertising... Marie Baronnet : The living art of Risqué Judith Stein - I come from Canada, I was a tomboy, working the farm with my father. I went to Oregon to study Art history, I ran out of money to finish my degree, a male friend told me to try Go-go dancing. As a feminist, I thought I couldn't do that but I became good at it and I wanted to see th... Marie Baronnet : The living art of Risqué Camille 2000 - I come from the Bible Belt. Alabama. I wanted to be an artist. My mam was a minister. At 16 I wrote my first song, "Nicotine Weed". They thought I was possessed. They beat me all the time. I just wanted to be a rock star. At 17 I got married, to escape the spanking. At 18 and 19 I ... Marie Baronnet : The living art of Risqué Dixie Evans - My career really took off when I did the Marylin show in the 1950's. We had the same body type you couldn't have Monroe but you could have the next thing: Dixie. I worked seven days a week even with a broken wrist, veterans loved me, they wanted Dixie, they sent me letters. My best ...