VINTAGE 1920's BROADWAY VAUDEVILLE DANCERS, 7.25" x 9.25" BY MAURICE GOLDBERG

Description: Rare and vintage 7.25" x 9.25" gelatin silver double weight portrait photograph of unknown Vaudeville BROADWAY DANCERS PERFORMERS taken by famous Vaudeville era photographer MAURICE GOLDMAN. The trademark Maurice Goldman energy captured by the photographer makes this a museum exhibition quality image. Maurice Goldberg (1881 – 1949) was a celebrated artist, the staff photographer for The Theatre in the mid-1920s, and the major dance photographer supplying images to the New York newspapers. Significant bodies of his work appear in Shadowland, Vanity Fair, Stage, and The Theatre. While he maintained a studio for shooting celebrity portraits, he preferred to be on site at the theaters and in the countryside where dance was going on. He is considered one of the greatest dance photographers of the 1920s and 30s, a talented portraitist, a chronicler of persons in the performing arts, Maurice Goldberg liked to show dancers and musicians engaged in performance. Although he preferred prints in smaller formats, even using large format photographic plates and slow film Goldberg could communicate motion better than Arnold Genthe, who obscured action in shadow, and Nickolas Muray, who liked to pose dancers in stances of arrested torsion in his studio. Goldberg depicted dancers doing the choreography of the works they performed in public. One feature of his practice was his tireless pursuit of technical mastery with every new paper, developing formula, and many new cameras that appeared. His publicity work for the magazines had dramatic shadowing, vignetting, strong form, and pictorial clarity. His exhibition pieces often used screen toning, dodging, and the graphic reworking of the backgrounds.

Price: 495 USD

Location: Santa Monica, California

End Time: 2025-01-03T20:11:08.000Z

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