Category: press photography, fotografia de premsa, fotografía de prensa, Pressefotografie, photographie de presse, stampa fotografica

Clotide von Derp, 1922

Gilbert René :: Original Pressefoto (World Wide Photo) Clotilde Sakharoff. Clotide von Derp. Stempel von Gilbert René 350 Rue St. Honoré, Paris, auf der Rückseite. Pressetext: “Mme Sakharoff, wife of the famous dancer Sakharoff, who caused a sensation in European social circles by her remarkable dancing. She is the daughter of Von Tirpitz, the former German submarine & Navy chief.” 2/22/22. | src Abebooks

Roshanara in Berlin ca. 1910

Charles Trampus ~ La Roshanowa, célèbre danseuse Hindoue (sic), Berlin, vers 1910. © Ch. Trampus (caption on verso) | src eBay

Forward into Light, 1924

A group of ritualists from the ‘Forward into Light’ pageant which will close the ‘Women for Congress’ conference of the National Woman’s Party at Westport-on-Lake-Champlain, New York, August 15-16-17, 1924. | src Library of Congress – Records of the National Woman’s Party

Suffragette’s Tableau, 1913

Liberty and her Attendants – (Suffragette’s Tableau) in Front of Treasury Bldg. March 3, 1913 – Washington, D.C. Women and girls in Greek costume in suffrage tableau in front of the Treasury Building, Washington, D.C. Central figure is dressed in toga as Liberty. L & M Ottenheimer, Baltimore, Md. (Publisher) | src Library of Congress – Records of the National Woman’s Party

Pressefotografin

B. Federmeyer :: Eine Pressefotografin bei der Arbeit | A press photographer at work. Published by Blatt 26-1929. Also: Invitation for the exhibition More than Bauhaus. German photography between the wars and Polish parallels. | src F.C. Gundlach

Désirée Lubovska · ca. 1915

Underwood & Underwood :: Portrait of ‘Russian’ dancer Désirée Lubowska [aka Mme Lubowska or Lubovska], full-length portrait, standing, left profile, in Cleopatra costume, 9 September 1915. (Désirée Lubovska was not actually Russian. It was the stage name of American born dancer Winniefred Foote). | src Library of Congress
White Studio (NY) :: Portrait of ‘Russian’ dancer Désirée Lubowska [aka Mme Lubowska or Lubovska], full-length portrait, standing, right profile, in Cleopatra costume, 1915. | src Les sources d’une île

Desiree Lubovska, also Desiree Lubowska, was the professional name of American dancer Winniefred Foote (1893 – 1974). Foote was born in Minnesota. She changed her name, adopted an accent in her speech, and created a backstory of dancing in Russia; she also said that she studied Egyptian art at the British Museum. She went on a diet and fitness regimen in pursuit of a more angular physique, and her dances reflect this focus. ‘I finally felt I was one of them, a reincarnated spirit of the Nile’; she said in a 1921 interview.

Text adapted from the Wikipedia entry (in English)

Ballet dancer Desiree Loubovska / Lubovska. Egyptian dance of mourning taken from tombs of Egypt. Press photo by White Studios (1916) | src Worthpoint ~ Worthopedia

The text “Egyptian dance of mourning taken from tombs of Egypt” can be read on the verso of the photograph, written in pencil amongst the stamps of press agencies.

Sahary Djèli, 1920 (Daily Mirror)

Hungarian exotic dancer Sahary Djèli, 1920. Photo: Daily Mirror | src Zvab
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