Bathing Beauty Image of the Day 4/2/2011

Charles Reutlinger was one of the most famous portrait photographers of the late 19th- early 20th Century. Best known for music hall performers and early "cheesecake" photography. In 1899, he published a series of photographs of varietee stars in bathing costume posing in various vignettes called Les baigneuses. Some images  were sold as photos of Guerrero, many were vignettes from the series (I think called Nos jolies baigneuses or Le bain du mer) and some are rather strange composite compositions.

S.I.P. 74th° Série N° 7. Hand-tinted real photo.