Stunning portrait of a young girl 1912 by French photographer Celine Laguarde 1873-1961 . This image  is from a vintage copy of Photograms of the Year 1912, the annual publication of the London Salon of Photography.

Celine Laguarde was born Gracious Céline Laguarde de Camoux in Biarritz in the Basque region of France. A member of the Photo Club of Paris and a regular in international salons, she lived in Paris in the 1880s-90s before settling in Aix-en-Provence.  She became a student of pictorials Robert Demachy, and critics praised her with the name “ maître de gommistes marseillais” (master of the Marseilles gum bichromatists). Celine Laguarde also exhibited at all the salons of the Photo Club of Paris from 1901, and was a member of the Marseilles Photo-Club. Photographing her immediate surroundings, family, friends and relatives, she also photographed local personalities of the intellectual milieu of Provence. From 1910 she devoted herself to portraits of celebrities such as Maurice Ravel, Darius Milhaud, Francis Jammes, Maurice Barres, Frederic Mistral and Jules Cheret. She married in1913, in Aix-en-Provence the Swiss doctor Édouard Frédéric Bugnion (1845-1939). Her photographic activity diminished after the First World War as she shared her time between France and Switzerland.