Hori · Shadowland · 1920s

Ichiro E. Hori ~ Figure Study. Shadowland magazine, October 1921 | src internet archive
Ichiro E. Hori ~ Figure Study. Shadowland magazine, October 1921 (Full page)
Ichiro E. Hori ~ Laurent Novikoff in costume for the Ziegfeld Follies. Shadowland magazine, September 1922

Caption reads : Laurent Novikoff / A vivid personality lends much to the interpretative quality of his subtle art

Ichiro E. Hori ~ Laurent Novikoff in costume for the Ziegfeld Follies. Shadowland magazine, September 1922 | src internet archive
Ichiro E. Hori ~ Figure Study. Shadowland magazine, January 1922
Ichiro E. Hori ~ Figure Study. Shadowland magazine, Januray 1922. Full page | src internet archive
Ichiro E. Hori ~ Roshanara. Shadowland magazine, October 1921 | src internet archive
Ichiro E. Hori ~ Roshanara. Shadowland magazine, October 1921 (Full page)

Caption reads : Roshanara / The gifted British dancer whose work vibrates with the mysticism and color of India and Burma

Ichiro E. Hori ~ Roshanara. A new camera study. Shadowland magazine, January 1922 | src internet archive

Caption reads : Roshanara / A new camera study of the brilliant young interpreter of native Burmese and Indian dances

Ichiro E. Hori ~ Roshanara. Shadowland magazine, January 1922 | src internet archive

Betty Katz by Edward Weston

Edward H. Weston (1886 – 1958) ~ Betty Katz (‘nude’), Los Angeles, 1920. Palladium print | src The J. Paul Getty Museum
Edward H. Weston (1886 – 1958) ~ Betty Katz [Betty Brandner], 1920 | src The J. Paul Getty Museum

In 1920 Edward Weston began a series of pictures of Betty Katz (later Brandner, 1865-1982), who was introduced to Weston by his colleague Margrethe Mather (1886-1952). Weston and Brandner engaged in a brief affair in October 1920, when he made this and several other images of her in her attic and out on a balcony. With its soft focus, these particular portraits are Pictorialist in style compared to the more experimental images Weston made of Katz (Brandner) that are Modernist in their self-conscious handling of space and form.

Text adapted from Brett Abbott. Edward Weston, In Focus: Photographs from the J. Paul Getty Museum (Los Angeles: J. Paul Getty Museum, 2005), 20. (quoted from Getty Museum)