Twirling and Bending, Wonderful c. 1940s Snapshot of Two USO Dancers with View of Trees Behind matchstick stars inventing elaborate stories about each

inventing elaborate stories about each one and their intertwining

the amazing old chippy green paint still hanging on to it is barely if at all chipping off any more

(It is many times more beautiful in person

or hung on a wall

Twirling and Bending, Wonderful c. 1940s Snapshot of Two USO Dancers with View of Trees Behind matchstick stars inventing elaborate stories about eachI love this photo. The seller I purchased it from described it as dancers at a USO event, WW2 era, and surely this dancer with skirt aloft must have pleased the troops! But while that fresh faced young woman and the twirl of her raised skirt are gorgeous, what really makes this photo for me the is the presence of the second dancer, back turned and body bent in a movement that feels much more Martha Graham than Marilyn Monroe. And that very modernist