vali myers

i've been reading "just kids" by patti smith. in the book, she mentions stumbling across a battered copy of "love on the left bank" by ed van der elsken, "with grainy black -and- white shots of paris nightlife in the late fifties. the photographs of the beautiful vali myers, with her wild hair and kohl-rimmed eyes, dancing on the streets of the latin quarter deeply impressed me."

i had to find out who this woman was. so here she is- vali myers- artist, dancer, muse.