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Herman Mishkin- portrait of Anna Pavlova , nd

Sture Ekstrand Tree dansöser 1925

MADAME D’ORA DORA KALLMUS (1881–1963) ARTHUR BENDA (1885–1969) Bodenwieser-Schule, Vienna 1925 Vintage silver print

Anonyme- La danse des femmes, vers 1930- , Tirage cartoline ( Ebay)

Arthur Benda, Der Tanz mit den goldenen Scheiben (The Dance with the Golden Disks), 1931 courtesy of the Museo d’Arte Moderna di Bologna

Byron Company – Two of Marion Morgan’s dancers with flowing scarf, posing on rocks at the beach Rye, New York. 1920

Swinney ( source nypl) dancers partnering each other in mirror pose, 1920s

Herman Mishkin- portrait of the Contortionist and Egyptian Dancer, Kyra, at the theathtre Winter Garden, 1920

James Abbe (1883-1973) was an American photographer who moved to Paris in the 1920s after working in Hollywood and began focusing on fashion. His work was published in such magazines as American Vogue, Vogue France, Harper’s Bazaar, and Vanity Fair. Like many other fashion photographers of the time period many of his subjects were actors and his subjects included Fred and Adele Astaire, Louise Brooks, Gloria Swanson, and the Russian ballerina Anna Pavlova. In the 1930s he began photographing the Spanish Civil War and then continued to work as a photojournalist throughout World War II, and eventually took Josef Stalin’s first official potraits.