
Baron Adolph de Meyer :: Mrs. Brown Potter, from Camera Work Number 24. Photogravure, circa 1908. / src Swann Galleries, NY.
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Baron Adolph de Meyer :: Mrs. Brown Potter, from Camera Work Number 24. Photogravure, circa 1908. / src Swann Galleries, NY.
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Baron Adolph de Meyer :: Still Life. Published in Camera Work, Nº 24, 1908. / src Toledo Museum of Art via NY Times blog
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Baron Adolph de Meyer :: Alvin Langdon Coburn in top hat, ca. 1910. Platinum print. / src: George Eastman Museum
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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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Baron Adolph de Meyer :: Vaslav Nijinsky as the Golden Slave in the Fokine ballet of Rimsky-Korsavov’s Schéhérazade, 1910 / src: Wikimedia Commons
