Tag: 1910s

A Marion Morgan dancer

Arnold Genthe ~ Marion Morgan dancer, portrait, 1914-27. Glass negative | src Library of Congress ~ Genthe collection
Arnold Genthe (1869-1942) ~ Marion Morgan dancer, portrait photograph, 1914-27. Glass negative | src Library of Congress
She looks very much like Dulcie Moore, view image below
Arnold Genthe (1869-1942) ~ Miss Dulcie Moore, portrait photograph, between 1916-1918. Glass negative | src Library of Congress

Antique and original

gelatin silver photograph of stage and silent screen vamp Valeska Suratt notated on the verso: Huntington Beach –
August 1915 . Suratt was one of the first women in show business to
control every aspect of her visual presentation and representation and
she built her brand around being a vampy sexual provocateur. A rare
images of Suratt which comes from her personal scrapbooks. / src: eBay

Admiring a print, ca. 1910

Eva Watson-Schütze :: Woman Admiring a Print, ca. 1910. Bromoil print. | src V&A museum
Eva Watson-Schütze :: Woman Admiring a Print, ca. 1910. Bromoil print. | src V&A museum

The image shows a woman in full length, wearing a long dress and standing at a table in profile against a blank pale wall, holding the edges of a print which is resting on the table. Bright light from a window in the top left of the photograph lights the front of the woman and the tabletop.

This is an example of the bromoil process invented around 1907, in which a bleached image is re-developed with pigment applied with brushes. ‘Pictorialist’ photographers favoured its broad tonal effects and diffuse detail. The print being ‘admired’ in the image is likely to have been a finely crafted photograph much like this one. [Gallery 100, ‘History of photography’, 2012-2013]

quoted from V&A Museum