Maurice Goldberg :: Alla Nazimova, 1925 / src Historical Ziegfeld Group
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Maurice Goldberg ::
Hindu dancer
Ryllis Barnes Simpson, aka Hasoutra, posing as the snake woman, New York, 1926 / src Historical Ziegfeld Group
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Wiliam Caxton :: Archival footage of the jazz trumpeter and singer Chet Baker in “Let’s Get Lost,” a documentary of his life shot by Bruce Weber in 1987. (In the photograph: Chet with his wife -at the time-, Halema Alli, 1955). Little Bear Films [src: NYTimes]
Alvin Langdon Coburn :: Portrait of Japanese dancer Michio Ito as ‘The Hawk’ in W.B. Yeats play: At the Hawk’s Well, 1916
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GIF with various images by Alvin Langdon Coburn of Japanese dancer Michio Ito
rehearsing
as ‘The Hawk’ in
William Butler Yeats’ half Celtic half Japanese Noh play: At the Hawk’s Well, 1916
/
From the exhibition, Simon Starling: At Twilight (After W.B. Yeats’ Noh Reincarnation). Its goal is to examine how the
uniquely
highly stylized ancient
Japanese art form of Noh has shaped art outside of Japan in multiple mediums throughout the twentieth century.
Alvin Langdon Coburn :: Actor in a production of “The Blue Bird: A Fairy Play in Six Acts” by Maurice Maeterlinck. Digital Positive from original negative, gelatin on nitrocellulose roll film,
ca. 1910
/ src: George Eastman Museum
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Baron Adolph de Meyer :: Alvin Langdon Coburn in top hat, ca. 1910. Platinum print. / src: George Eastman Museum
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Lotte Jacobi :: Birdform, 1946-1955 (printed 1981). One of Jacobi’s “photogenics” as she named her photograms./ src Akron Art Museum
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