Category: role portrait, Rollenporträt, characterization

Jenny Hasselqvist, Dying Swan

Henry B. Goodwin :: Jenny Hasselqvist, The Dying Swan. From a series of photos of Hasselquist taken between 1916 and 1918. The Goodwin Collection, The Royal Swedish Library. | src Karen Vedel: The Performance of Pictorialist Dance Photography
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Pola Negri in Sumurun, 1920

Pola Negri as Yannaia (a dancer) in Sumurun (aka One Arabian Night, Ernst Lubitsch, 1920). German postcard by Ross Verlag, Berlin, no. 642/5. Photo: Union Film. | src Truus, Bob & Jan too

Leopoldine Konstantin in Sumurûn (1910)

Becker & Maaß :: Leopoldine Konstantin (b. Leopoldine Eugenie Amelie Konstantin) as Tänzerin in Sumurûn (Max Reinhardt, 1910). German postcard by Verlag Hermann Leiser, nº 4310. Photo by Becker & Maass. Collection: Didier Hanson. The photo was a publicity still for the film. | src Truus, Bob & Jan too

Grethe Ruzt-Nissen (ca. 1922)

Waldemar Eide :: Postkort med motiv av Grethe Ruzt-Nissen (ca. 1922). Eneret Mittet & Co. (nº 12) | src Oslo Museum

Grethe Ruzt-Nissen, ca. 1922

Waldemar Eide :: Postkort (ballettdanserinne, rollebilde) med motiv av Grethe Ruzt-Nissen (ca. 1922). Eneret Mittet & Co. (nº 15) | src Oslo Museum