A portrait of Baron Isidore-Justin-Séverin Taylor, a royal commissioner of the Théâtre-Français and prominent playwright and writer, by the celebrity portrait photographer, caricaturist, and journalist Nadar.
Ruth St. Denis in costume for a Japanese Dance of the Genroku Period. Though this image seems to be staged rather than taken from an actual performance, St. Denis did have a number of dances in which she wore Japanese Geisha costumes. The most...
Portrait of a woman wearing an ornate headband and a long beaded (possibly pearls?) necklace wrapped around the neck multiple times. Zoe was a heroine of the Greek War of Independence in 1821. She was reputed to be shy until the Turks attacked...
Albumen paper print; Portrait; Portrait photography; Headbands; Hair ornaments; Necklaces; Women photographers
Woman with long hair her arm around a man dressed in jeans and denim jacket both sitting on a park bench in Washington Square Park, NYC, 1965.
Women; Men; Washington Square Park (New York, N. Y.); Documentary photography; Street photography; Women photographers; New York (N. Y.); Portrait photography; Urban life
Photographic postcard of Ruth St. Denis. "The Incense" was an alluring piece that combined a series of slow, rhythmic steps with mesmerizingly fast arm movements. Though St. Denis entered bearing an incense try, as pictured here, she proceeded to...
