Herbert James Draper, Sea melodies, detail,1904.

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Vogue Italia | March 1999
“Floating” by Steven Meisel

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Carlos Schwabe - La Mort 1900

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Chinese Cigarette Card

Dhachukao Cigarettes; Dhachunkao Tobacco Co, Shanghai

Circa 1910. “Bathing at West Palm Beach, Florida.” 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company.

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Xavier Martinez, Valkyrie of the sea, ca. 1915

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Broadstairs vrouwelijke surfers 1928

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Cuba, the Ideal Vacation Land by paul.malon on Flickr.

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1951.

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In southern Japan women free-divers have been collecting the flora and fauna of the sea for 2,000 years. Traditionally they wore only loincloths in far-from-warm waters.

Traditions don’t get much more exciting than mostly-nude women in the water with pearls and sharks and whatnot. These divers are known as ama, or sea women.

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‘The Green Abyss‘  Guilio Aristide Sartorio. 1895

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Though gaily ye may laugh,
In grief ye shall be left,
For, mocking maids, this ring
Ye ask shall never be yours.

Arthur Rackham, from Siegfried & The twilight of the gods, by Richard Wagner, London, 1911.

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Steven Turner

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