Dancers from "The Book of the Dance" - six Autochromes from the book by Arnold Genthe, 1916 and 1920

  

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Originally published by Mitchell Kennerley in New York, 1916, it was republished in 1920 by International Publishers, Boston. The cloth bound book was comprised of 229 pages, with more than 100 photographic plates, including six reproduced in color from Genthe's original Autochromes. It included a forward by the photographer and an introductory essay "On with the Dance" by the Irish-American poet and critic Shaemas O'Sheel (né James Shields).

The first edition, 1916.

The 1920 edition.

Juliet Barrett Rublee. The frontispiece. (The following images are ordered as they appear in the book, interspersed with the black and white images.)

Ruth St. Denis.

Hilda Biyar.

Mignon (Isabel Rodriguez).

Daphne. (I don't know whether that's actually the name of the dancer or merely a title for the photograph.)

Andrea Zamora.

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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.)