Bert Stern

Rudolf Nureyev and Margot Fonteyn

circa 1965

Rudolf Nureyev, circa 1965

Allegra Kent and Eddie Viella, 1966

Model and Bert Stern, VOGUE Italia, 1980

Gerry Mulligan and Monique Chevalier, Vogue, 1962

8 x 10" vintage silver gelatin photograph of Rudolf Nureyev and Sonia Arova photographed during the curtain call after his triumphant American debut performance March 10, 1962. This ...

11 x 14" vintage silver gelatin photograph of American Ballet Theater ballerina Lupe Serrano and Rudolf Nureyev rehearsing at ABT for a television appearance, 1962. Signed by Jack Mitchell. Comes directly from the Jack Mitchell Archives with a certificate of authenticity. Jack Mitchell, (1925-2013) bulging photographic portfolio of actors, writers, painters, musicians and especially dancers describes a pictorial history of the arts in the late 20th century. Mr. Mitchell, who took hundreds of pictures for The New York Times, was both a portraitist and a capturer of complex motion. An expert in lighting, he worked mostly, though not entirely, in black and white, and he was known — by his subjects, by the magazine and newspaper editors he worked for, and by critics — as someone who could make a photograph reveal character. Jack Mitchell was the official photographer for the American Ballet Theater, and he chronicled the work of the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater for more than thirty years. When he retired in 1995, he had fulfilled more than 5,000 assignments in black and white, and nearly a thousand in color. He photographed more than 160 covers for Dance magazine, and his photos have appeared in Time, Life, Newsweek, Rolling Stone, Vanity Fair, Vogue and many other publications. Mitchell’s photographs are in the collections of the National Portrait Gallery, the Museum of African American History and Culture, and the Smithsonian Archives of American Art, among others. The 2019 USPS Black Heritage postage stamp honoring American performer Gregory Hines was made from a Jack Mitchell photograph, and a Jack Mitchell photograph of Audre Lorde...

Excellent Condition Taken 1961 Published Vogue 1963 Printed 1988

11 x 14" vintage silver gelatin photograph of Rudolf Nureyev in dance class (Erik Bruhn out of focus in the background), January 20, 1965. Comes directly ...