Name: Photography, Dorothy Graves, Ziegfeld Follies Dancer
Brand: Alfred Cheney Johnston
Rating: 5 (61 reviews)

Photography, Dorothy Graves, Ziegfeld Follies Dancer

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Photograph of Ziegfeld Follies dancer Dorothy Graves, photography by Alfred Cheney Johnston. A rich image. From the estate of Alfred Cheney Johnston (American 1885-1971). Stamped and inscribed on reverse. Vintage early 20th century. 13" x 9" silver print. For his indoor studio work, Johnston often employed a large "Century"-brand view camera that produced 11x14-inch glass-plate negatives, so a standard Johnston 11x14 photographic print was actually just a "contact print" from the negative and not enlarged at all. This size of negative afforded extremely fine image detail. (However, Johnston also is confirmed to have shot with a Graflex camera in 3-1/4 x 4-1/4-inch roll-film format; an unknown brand of 8x10 view camera; and a Zeiss Ikon camera in 120 [2-1/4 x 2-1/4-inch] film format.) Johnston's "standard" work, of course, was used by Flo Ziegfeld for the normal advertising and promotional purposes for the Follies, and mainly consisted of individual or small-group shots of the Follies showgirls in their extravagant stage costumes. However, after Johnston's death in 1971, a huge treasure Trove of extremely artistic full nude and semi-nude full-figure studio photos (and their accompanying glass-plate negatives) was found stored at the farm near Oxford, Connecticut, where he'd lived since 1940. Most of these images (some named, mostly anonymous) were, in fact, showgirls from the Ziegfeld Follies, but such daring, unretouched full-frontal images would certainly have had no public-publication possibilities in the 1920s-1930s, so it is speculated that these were either simply his own personal artistic work, and/or done at the behest of Flo Ziegfeld for that showman's personal enjoyment.

Creator:
Alfred Cheney Johnston (Photographer)
Dimensions:
Height: 13 in (33.02 cm)Width: 9 in (22.86 cm)Depth: 0.1 in (2.54 mm)
Style:
Art Deco (Of the Period)
Place of Origin:
United States
Period:
Early 20th Century
Date of Manufacture:
circa 1920s
Condition:
Seller Location:
Rochester, NY
Reference Number:
Seller: Flapper girl Nude female woman mid modern art deco1stDibs: LU158523263012

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