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[Portrait of a female dancer as a nymph]

Baron Adolf de Meyer

Date: 1912
Medium: Collotype on papier pelure (onionskin)
Culture: American
Department: Photographs
Institution: Getty Museum

Portrait of a female dancer as a nymph, looking directly at the camera. Her hair cascades down over her shoulders.

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Creator

Baron Adolf de Meyer

American Photographer · 1868–1946

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Artist

Baron Adolf de Meyer spent his childhood in Paris and Germany. He exhibited photographs as an amateur photographer when he was around twenty-six years old. The following year he relocated from Dresden to London, where he was admitted to the Royal Photographic Society and the Linked Ring. He maintained a professional correspondence and friendship with Alfred Stieglitz; de Meyer's photographs were p