Category: 1920s

Martha Graham by N. Muray

Nickolas Muray ~ Dancer Martha Graham. Shadowland magazine, September 1922 | src internet archive
 ‘A classic dancer of proved ability, who is a graduate of the Denishawn School’ ~ Shadowland, September 1922

 

Hori · Shadowland · 1920s

Ichiro E. Hori ~ Figure Study. Shadowland magazine, October 1921 | src internet archive
Ichiro E. Hori ~ Figure Study. Shadowland magazine, October 1921 (Full page)
Ichiro E. Hori ~ Laurent Novikoff in costume for the Ziegfeld Follies. Shadowland magazine, September 1922

Caption reads : Laurent Novikoff / A vivid personality lends much to the interpretative quality of his subtle art

Ichiro E. Hori ~ Laurent Novikoff in costume for the Ziegfeld Follies. Shadowland magazine, September 1922 | src internet archive
Ichiro E. Hori ~ Figure Study. Shadowland magazine, January 1922
Ichiro E. Hori ~ Figure Study. Shadowland magazine, Januray 1922. Full page | src internet archive
Ichiro E. Hori ~ Roshanara. Shadowland magazine, October 1921 | src internet archive
Ichiro E. Hori ~ Roshanara. Shadowland magazine, October 1921 (Full page)

Caption reads : Roshanara / The gifted British dancer whose work vibrates with the mysticism and color of India and Burma

Ichiro E. Hori ~ Roshanara. A new camera study. Shadowland magazine, January 1922 | src internet archive

Caption reads : Roshanara / A new camera study of the brilliant young interpreter of native Burmese and Indian dances

Ichiro E. Hori ~ Roshanara. Shadowland magazine, January 1922 | src internet archive

Ernestine Myers, 1920-22

Hixon & Connelly :: Dancer Ernestine Myers, published in Shadowland magazine, September 1922 issue. | src Library of Congress: Moving Image Section
Orval Hixon (1884-1982) :: Ernestine Myers, 1920. Gelatin silver print, printed 1976. | src Heritage Auctions
Orval Hixon (1884-1982) :: Ernestine Myers, 1920. Gelatin silver print, printed 1976. | src Heritage Auctions
Orval Hixon (1884-1982) :: Ernestine Myers, 1920. Gelatin silver print, printed 1976. | src Heritage Auctions
Orval Hixon (1884-1982) :: Ernestine Myers, 1920. Gelatin silver print, printed 1976. Credited, titled, and dated in pencil, verso. | src Heritage Auctions

Betty Katz by Edward Weston

Edward H. Weston (1886 – 1958) ~ Betty Katz (‘nude’), Los Angeles, 1920. Palladium print | src The J. Paul Getty Museum
Edward H. Weston (1886 – 1958) ~ Betty Katz [Betty Brandner], 1920 | src The J. Paul Getty Museum

In 1920 Edward Weston began a series of pictures of Betty Katz (later Brandner, 1865-1982), who was introduced to Weston by his colleague Margrethe Mather (1886-1952). Weston and Brandner engaged in a brief affair in October 1920, when he made this and several other images of her in her attic and out on a balcony. With its soft focus, these particular portraits are Pictorialist in style compared to the more experimental images Weston made of Katz (Brandner) that are Modernist in their self-conscious handling of space and form.

Text adapted from Brett Abbott. Edward Weston, In Focus: Photographs from the J. Paul Getty Museum (Los Angeles: J. Paul Getty Museum, 2005), 20. (quoted from Getty Museum)

Akarova in Allegro Barbaro, 1929

Robert de Smet :: Akarova; „Allegro Barbaro”, 1929; Archives d’Architecture Moderne, Bruksela | src Poruszone ciała. Choreografie nowoczesności
Robert de Smet :: Akarova; „Allegro Barbaro”, 1929; Archives d’Architecture Moderne, Bruksela | src Poruszone ciała. Choreografie nowoczesności

Vase aux Iris et Orchidées

irises or orchids
Laure Albin-Guillot (1879-1962) :: Vase aux Iris | Vase with Iris, 1938 | src tout ceci est magnifique
Laure Albin-Guillot (1879-1962) :: Vase aux orchidées (*), 1938. Épreuve au charbon, tirage Fresson, signée et datée au recto, inscription manuscrite « New York expo Art décoratif français » au verso | src Piasa auction Dec. 2016 (lot 11)

(*) Note: not orchids but irises; vase with irises. Unless they were a variety of orchids that look very much like irises. If anybody happen to have the knowledge to disambiguate, please drop a line below. Thank you!

Laure Albin-Guillot :: Orchidées 1927. Carbon Fresson print, on metalised golden paper. | src Luminous Lint LL/50901
Laure Albin-Guillot :: Orchidées, 1927. Carbon Fresson print, on metalised golden paper. Auctioned at Sotheby’s May 2013 PF 1310 Lot 79. | src Luminous Lint : LL/50901

“Le sujet le plus banal, quelques fleurs dans un vase par exemple, devient nouveau par la façon dont les lumières y sont groupées et par l’extrème variété des valeurs. (…) Pour donner plus de richesse à ses compositions, l’auteur [Laure Albin Guillot] les a tirées sur fond or selon un procédé dont elle a le brevet.”
Jean Gallotti, ‘La photographie est-elle un art? Laure Albin-Guyot [sic!]’, dans L’art vivant, No. 99, 1er février 1929, p. 138. [Quoted from Sotheby’s]