Tag: drapery

Schenk dancer and draperies

Charles Schenk (American, active New York 1898-1905) ~ Schenk-Draperies, New York, United States; 1902; Collotype. | Getty Museum
Charles Schenk :: Dance studies, plate 12, circa 1910. Gelatin silver print from collotype negative. | src Freeman’s auction

Charles Schenk was active in New York from 1898 to 1905. He produced a series of motion studies of women dancing with drapery as well as a collection of multi-plate prints detailing women’s hands at work. His works are in the collections of the Getty Museum, MoMA and the Rijksmuseum.

Charles Schenk (American, active New York 1898-1905) ~ Schenk-Draperies, New York, United States; 1902; Collotype. Eight images of a woman dancing in a simple dress with a rope belt. Full plate. | Getty Museum
Charles Schenk (American, active New York 1898-1905) ~ Schenk-Draperies, New York, United States; 1902; Collotype.
Charles Schenk (American, active New York 1898-1905) ~ Schenk-Draperies, New York, United States; 1902; Collotype. | Getty Museum

Nu allongé ca. 1865

Nu allongé, ca. 1865 Tirage albuminé monté sur carton. Auteur non-identifié. | src la Gazette Drouot
Nu allongé, ca. 1865. Tirage albuminé monté sur carton. Auteur non-identifié. | src la Gazette Drouot
Nu allongé, ca. 1865 Tirage albuminé monté sur carton. Auteur non-identifié. | src la Gazette Drouot
Nu allongé, ca. 1865. Tirage albuminé monté sur carton. Auteur non-identifié. | src la Gazette Drouot
Nu allongé se recoiffant, ca. 1865 Tirage sur papier albuminé monté sur carton. | src Tessier Sarrou
Nu allongé se recoiffant, ca. 1865 Tirage sur papier albuminé monté sur carton. | src Tessier Sarrou

Portrait by Mauro Camuzzi, 1920s

Mauro Camuzzi (1893-1964) :: Ritratto artistico femminile. Non datato, ma anni '20. Impresso al recto: 'Fot. Camuzzi / Via Senato, 8 – Milano'. Al verso timbro 'Rivista Popolo d’Italia' e note a matita. src Libreria antiquaria Gonelli
Mauro Camuzzi (1893-1964) :: Ritratto artistico femminile. Non datato, ma anni ’20.
Impresso al recto: ‘Fot. Camuzzi / Via Senato, 8 – Milano’. Al verso timbro ‘Rivista Popolo d’Italia’ e note a matita.
src Libreria antiquaria Gonelli

Camuzzi ritrae la modella adagiata su un divano. Una particolare tecnica mette a fuoco il viso dallo sguardo intenso e la mano appoggiata al mento, mentre lascia volutamente sfuocato il drappeggio della veste e lo sfondo. Lo scatto risale al periodo dello Studio in via Senato 8. (1920s) [src Gonelli]

Camuzzi portrays the model lying on a sofa. His particular technique focuses on her face with an intense gaze and the hand resting on her chin, while deliberately leaving the drapery of the dress and the background out of focus. The shot dates back to the period of the Studio in via Senato 8. (1920s) [quoted from source]

Dancing with Helen Möller, 1918

“The race, adapted from the classic Greek games, is useful in dance interpretations combining grace and swiftness of movement. The silhouettes compare fantastic with natural grace of movement.” From ‘Dancing with Helen Moller’, 1918. Page 106. University of California Libraries. | src internet archive
“Drigo’s Serenade — showing how modem music of this character inspires the creation of dance movements and figures adapted from the purest Greek models. The beginning of the interpretation is shown in the small plate.” From ‘Dancing with Helen Moller’, 1918. Page 74. University of California Libraries. | src internet archive
“A playful Spring movement — flowers and ribbons, and lightness of movement which seems almost to defy the force of gravitation. The small Tanagra figures suggest the same spirit.” From ‘Dancing with Helen Moller’, 1918. Page 42. University of California Libraries. | src internet archive
“Here the dancer, erect and recumbent, realizes in living movement the classic sculptor’s sense of the aesthetic value of simple draperies.” From ‘Dancing with Helen Moller’, 1918. Page 48. University of California Libraries. | src internet archive
“The ocean beach, upon which the surf rolls rhythmically, or is broken upon half submerged rocks, incites to the most open free and vital dancing expression.” From ‘Dancing with Helen Moller’, 1918. Page 86. University of California Libraries. | src internet archive
“Reacting to the breath of Spring — the most compelling of all impulses to dance, and provocative of the most joyous physical expression.”
Helen Möller and Curtis Dunham :: From ‘Dancing with Helen Moller; her own statement of her philosophy and practice and teaching formed upon the classic Greek model, and adapted to meet the aesthetic and hygienic needs of to-day’, 1918. Page 88. University of California Libraries. | src internet archive

ACKNOWLEDGMENT: Many of the photographs reproduced in this book were taken by the author herself. For the privilege of reproducing other fine examples of the photographer’s art, she desires to express her grateful acknowledgments to Moody, to Maurice Goldberg, to Charles Albin and to Underwood and Underwood; also to Arnold Genthe for the plate [lost plate] on Page 36; and to Jeremiah Crowley for his admirable arrangement of the entire series of illustrative art plates. [quoted from source]

Vera Milcinovic by Genthe

Arnold Genthe :: Vera Milcinovic, 7 January 1926. Nitrate negative (detail) | src Library of Congress
Arnold Genthe :: Vera Milcinovic, January 7th, 1926. Nitrate negative | src Genthe photograph collection (Library of Congress)
Vera Milčinović, also known as Tashamira (1906-1995), Croatian dancer and choreographer. Photo by A. Genthe

Marion Morgan dancer in pose

 Arnold Genthe (1869-1942) ~ A Marion Morgan dancer, between 1914 and 1927. Glass negative | src Library of Congress

Nude study (torso) by A. Genthe

Arnold Genthe, N.Y. :: Untitled [Female nude as classical sculpture], between 1911 and 1937. | src Library of Congress
Arnold Genthe :: Modern Torso, ca. 1918. Gelatin silver print. | src and hi-res The J. Paul Getty Museum

Nudes 1850s by Felix Moulin

Félix-Jacques-Antoine Moulin :: Nude, ca. 1850. Salted paper print from paper negative. | src The Rubel Collection (The Met)
Félix-Jacques-Antoine Moulin ~ Nude, ca. 1850. Salted paper print from paper negative. | src The Rubel Collection at The Met
Female Nude, 1856 (Albumen silver print). Attributed to Félix-Jacques Moulin (French, 1802 – 1875)
From: Abigail Solomon-Godeau: «Reconsidérer la photographie érotique» | src ODLP ~ l’œil de la photographie