Friday, January 20, 2012

Clara Bow and her Swastika

Before the symbol had become irrecoverably associated with fascism, and is used here purely decoratively, but it’s quite a striking image.

4 comments:

  1. can you precise the exact year of the shoot, according to her hat it may be before 1933, rather 27/28 around look like .... thx 4 answer

    ReplyDelete
  2. Karl, I can't get an exact date. Most of my Googling says 20's. But nothing definite!

    ReplyDelete
  3. Sorry, but there's only one reason to post a swastika and think it's cool. Evil. (maybe also deviance, ignorance,
    insensitivity, etc.)

    ReplyDelete