A young Myrna Loy dancing, c. 1920s
Scanned from: Myrna Loy: Being and Becoming
The result of photographer Charles Freger’s months traveling in Europe researching costumes and customs. “more than actual carnivals or folklore, what I was trying to represent was the community of men.” “rather than offer an anthropologists report on these disguises, the idea is to pay homage to to the beauty of these living sculptures spawned by rituals that remain vital… Here we can sense the sap of primitive human nature, rising beneath the horns, the fur and the antlers. in a very civil way, he reminds us of the animal within.”
From Le Monde De Hermes, the biannual art magazine put out by Hermes.
