Dancing Nymph

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Dancing Nymph

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Arthur F. Kales

American Photographer · 1881–1936

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Born in the Arizona territory, Arthur Kales received a law degree from the University of California at Berkeley in 1903. While living in the Bay Area, he became interested in the burgeoning Pictorialist movement in photography that flourished there, and his images met with immediate success. Kales moved to Los Angeles to work in advertising but returned to San Francisco in 1917. In the following y

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Date: about 1917
Medium: Platinum print
Culture: American
Department: Photographs
Institution: Getty Museum
Object ID: 8e2eb0ef-57ab-43ff-b0e6-27f6c6675245

Explaining the abundance of photographic activity in this state, Los Angeles resident Arthur Kales wrote, "Nature has climatically and scenically endowed California beyond her needs. Conditions are ideal for the enjoyment of photography the year round." Kales frequently used dancers as models for his dramatic, staged pictures, posing them in wooded settings or on movie sets.

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