charlotte

[foule-sentimentalee]

Soviet gymnasts Natalia Shaposhnikova & Natalia Yurchenko, 1978

[mo-salto]

Dramatic choreo queen Elena Shevchenko

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Soviet gymnast Elena Mukhina (and her coach Mikhail Klimenko) at the 1979 European Championships, Copenhagen

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Joubert 1981/82

[farawayboi]

[galexico-blog]

Ph. Françis Meadow Sutcliffe

[artpassion3]

Photograph used to illustrate the Cunard Line poster, Europe-America, commissioned by Sercombes and Hayes, Dorchester

[flourishevas-blog]

A moment of Nadia rolling her eyes and leaving the frame in embarrassment actually happened? Yes it did. 

from Nadia: From Romania with Love, 1977 (context: she was saying the title of this very special for the opening - this was from when she wasn’t so fluent in English at the time - and she was pretty corpsing afterward)

[foule-sentimentalee]

JM Barrie, The boy castaways of black lake island, 1901 (two Davies boys)

[homostalgia]

by Karel Egermeier for "Paysage des Olympiques", d'Henry de Montherlant

[foule-sentimentalee]

Drawing by Pierre Joubert from 81 or 82

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Robert Manson

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Peter Pan 1924 (Herbert Brenon)

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Mariette Lydis

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Scout toujours 1985

[homostalgia]

by Karel Egermeier for "Paysage des Olympiques", d'Henry de Montherlant

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Drawing by Pierre Joubert from 81 or 82

[efemmera-archive]

Madchen in Uniform (1931) Dir. Leontine Sagan

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Emilia Eberle, Dumitrita Turner & Ecaterina Szabo, from the Romanian gymnastics team, around 1978-1980

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