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[Ruth St. Denis in Gypsy Costume]
Creator
Arthur F. KalesAmerican Photographer · 1881–1936
All works by this person →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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- 1920
- Medium
- Toned platinum print
- Culture
- American
- Department
- Photographs
- Institution
- Getty Museum
- Object ID
- d85ef959-5c91-42c0-931e-3d02ddb79375
After seeing a poster advertising Egyptian Deities brand cigarettes, Ruth St. Denis became fascinated with eastern forms of dance and costume. St. Denis, one of the early innovators of modern dance in America, co-founded the influential Los Angeles dance school Denishawn. Dissatisfied with traditional ballet and the notion of dance as mere entertainment, she explored dance as a medium of spiritual and philosophical expression.
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