Miserere Miserere mei, Deus, secundum magnam misericordiam tuam: Et secundum multitudinem miserationum tuarum, dele iniquitatem meam. Amplius lava me ab iniquitate mea: et a peccato meo munda me. Quoniam iniquitatem meam ego cognosco: et peccatum meum contra me est semper. Tibi soli peccavi, et malum coram te feci: ut iustificeris in sermonibus tuis, et vincas cum iudicaris. Ecce, enim in iniquitatibus conceptus sum: et in peccatis concepit me mater mea. Ecce enim veritatem dilexisti: incerta et occulta sapientiae tuae manifestasti mihi. Asperges me hyssopo, et mundabor: lavabis me, et super nivem dealbabor. Auditui meo dabis gaudium et laetitiam: et exsultabunt ossa humiliata. Averte faciem tuam a peccatis meis: et omnes iniquitates meas dele. Miserere Have mercy upon me, O God, after thy great goodness: according to the multitude of thy mercies do away mine ...
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Heinz von Perckhammer
Heinz von Perckhammer (1895–1965) was a Tyrolean photographer best known for his Chinese nudes and Beijing street scenes. Perckhammer was born in Merano, Austria-Hungary (now Italy) on 3 March 1895. In the First World War he served aboard the SMS Kaiserin Elisabeth during the Siege of Tsingtao and from 1917 to 1919 was a Japanese prisoner of war. He remained in China for several years after his release. In 1928 two volumes of his photographs were published in Berlin: one of carefully posed Chinese nudes, many taken in Macao brothels, under the title Edle nacktheit in China (The Culture of the Nude in China),[1] and one of Beijing street photography, as Peking.[2] In 1929 he accompanied the airship LZ 127 Graf Zeppelin on its round-the-world tour, as a photojournalist for the Berlin illustrated weekly Die Woche.[3] By 1932 Perckhammer had established a studio in Berlin, where his work included nudes and fashion photography. In the late 1930s some of his images were used as pro...
Zoltan Glass
Zoltan Glass was born in Budapest on April 26, 1903, to Reszon and Olga Glass, a Jewish couple whose family circumstances are unclear. Zoltan had at least one elder brother, Stefan, who also became a photographer, based in London. Zoltan began his career as a cartoonist and retoucher for a local newspaper, but in 1925 he moved to Berlin. Initially he earned his living as a freelance jack-of-all-trades. Eventually he found regular employment as the picture editor of a Berlin evening paper, the 5-8 Uhr Abendblatt, and then, from 1931, as a photojournalist on the more important daily, the Berliner Tagblatt. (Interestingly, two other Hungarian-Jewish newspapermen from Budapest who learned their craft on Berlin journals at that time were the writer Arthur Koestler and the cartoonist Victor Weisz, better known later as Vicky of the Daily Mirror and London's Evening Standard.) As a member of the network of highly talented Hungarian émigrés active in the creative life of the German c...
Billie Dove by Alfred Cheney Johnston
Billie Dove c. 1920s Photo: Alfred Cheney Johnston Lillian Bohny (Billie Dove), actress: born New York 14 May 1903; married 1923 Irvin Willat (marriage dissolved 1929), 1933 Robert Kenaston (died 1973; one son, one adopted daughter), 1973 John Miller (marriage dissolved); died Woodland Hills, California 31 December 1997. Billie Dove was one of the greatest stars of the silent days of Hollywood. At the end of the 1920s she was voted, with Clara Bow, as America's most popular actress, and at the box office exceeded even the drawing power of Mary Pickford, Gloria Swanson and Greta Garbo. The singer Billie Holliday named herself after her. Billie Dove was born Lillian Bohny in New York City in 1903. (Her brother, Charles, became a cameraman in Hollywood.) Her parents were Swiss immigrants. She visited Switzerland as a child, and spoke German before she spoke English. Her parents were Lutheran and their church organised sports events; the girls on the basketball team called her ...