L a - b e a u t é - s a u v e r a - l e - m o n d e ~ D o s t o ï e v s k i

L a - b e a u t é - s a u v e r a - l e - m o n d e  ~  D o s t o ï e v s k i



Sunday, May 9, 2021

Isadora being Isadora

 
Posing in the Parthenon, six images by Edward Steichen, 1921.
Four images by Arnold Genthe, circa 1915-18.
In Venice, circa 1903-05. Probably photographed by her brother, Raymond Duncan.
In Athens, 1903. Four images by her brother, Raymond Duncan.
In the theater of Dionysus, Athens. (Three images.)
Dancing in honor of Rodin at a banquet in the Bois de Vélizy, 1903. (Rodin had just been made a Commandeur of the Légion d'honneur.)
Photograph by Paul Berger, circa 1907-08.
Photograph by Arnold Genthe, circa 1917.
Two portraits by Edward Steichen, 1913.
With Edward Gordon Craig, circa 1906.
With Paris Singer. Two images by Arnold Genthe, circa 1914.
With her children Deirdre and Patrick. Portrait by Otto Wegener, 1913.
Five images by Arnold Genthe, circa 1915-18.
(This, the same photograph as that above, is an example of the cropping and toning Genthe customarily used in his prints.)
With husband Sergei Esenin, Berlin, 1922.
With Esenin, 1922.
With Esenin arriving in the United States, 1922. (Three images.)
A portrait by Baron de Meyer, 1922.
Esenin on the Lido in Venice, 1922. (Two images.)
Photograph by Bertram Park, 1921.
Three images by Arnold Genthe, circa 1915-18.
Circa 1920s.
Portrait by Arnold Genthe, circa 1914.
(The photographer cropped this image from his portrait of Duncan with Paris Singer.)




1 comment:

  1. A sylph like spirit of dance, so beautiful her moves. A flickering flame of human passions, so wild her life.
    The tragic loss of three little-ones, a horrid death with the last words "Je vais a l'amour/ I am off to love".
    -Rj

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