Tag: Adolf de Meyer

Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, 1917

Adolf de Meyer :: Three-quarter length portrait of Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney (Mrs. Harry Payne Whitney) wearing a jeweled gown and tiara and holding a peacock feather fan, ca. 1916. Platinum print. Published in Vogue magazine, Jan. 15, 1917. | src Library of Congress

Marchesa Luisa Casati, 1912

Adolf de Meyer :: Portrait of the Marchesa Luisa Casati, 1912. Published in Camera Work, No. XL, August 1912. Close-up of ‘La Marchesa’ Luisa Casati (aka La Casati) wearing a fur trimmed coat. She poses with her hands on the sides of her face. | src Getty Images, Christie’s and National Gallery of Victoria
Baron Adolf de Meyer :: “Marchesa Casati”, 1912. Photogravure on Japan paper. Original Camera Work print, issue 40, October 1912. | src Collezione Molinario

Dance study by de Meyer

Adolf de Meyer :: [Dance study], ca. 1912. Platinum print | source The Metropolitan Museum of Art via wikimedia commons

It has been suggested that this photograph, the only [known] nude by de Meyer, has some connection to the Ballets Russes, but the nature of that link remains mysterious. The image vibrates with an uneasy erotic tension, a product of the figure’s exposed torso, startled body language, and disguised identity. (quoted from The Met)

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