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Vintage gelatin silver print
cm 32 x 23,7 | 12.6 x 9.3 in.
Photographer's credit stamp on the verso
Lovers of show business owe much to the New Yorker Alfred Cheney Johnstone, for it was he who for fifteen years, starting in 1911, was the official photographer hired by Florenz 'Flo' Ziegfeld for his cabaret, which he called Ziegfield Follies in obvious reference to the prurient Parisian Folies Bergères. Although he also used other, more manageable cameras, Johnstone routinely used a view camera with 11x14 inches glass negatives to make contact prints. In most cases, as in these proposed here, these were portraits of showgirls and dancers in stage costumes with some sexy concessions, which on other less official occasions became actual nudes.
cm 32 x 23,7 | 12.6 x 9.3 in.
Photographer's credit stamp on the verso
Lovers of show business owe much to the New Yorker Alfred Cheney Johnstone, for it was he who for fifteen years, starting in 1911, was the official photographer hired by Florenz 'Flo' Ziegfeld for his cabaret, which he called Ziegfield Follies in obvious reference to the prurient Parisian Folies Bergères. Although he also used other, more manageable cameras, Johnstone routinely used a view camera with 11x14 inches glass negatives to make contact prints. In most cases, as in these proposed here, these were portraits of showgirls and dancers in stage costumes with some sexy concessions, which on other less official occasions became actual nudes.
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