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1913 Adolph de Meyer, La Marchesa Luisa Casati (aka La Casati) photographed with her head resting on her arms, with pearls draped over her arms.
"Finally, Luisa was photographed. Baron Adolph de Meyer was internationally renowned. The photo he took of Luisa in 1912 in Venice went around the world. A necklace of pearls wrapped around her wrists, her chin resting on her arms crossed, the gaze of the marquise is riveted to the lens. Her pupils, which she now dilated every day with drops of belladonna in defiance of the danger of ending up blind, hypnotize us. It is this same look that seems to be captured on the different paintings, the one she wanted to show, not that of a lioness or a tigress but of a mysterious and implacable woman. Because Luisa wanted to control her image. Deep down, she took herself very seriously. » (x)
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Flower Study (1908)
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Autochrome (Royal Photographic Society Collection | The Dawn of Colour at Science and Media Museum)
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Early photography: Arashiyama, Kyoto, Japan - Adolph de Meyer
Early photography: Arashiyama, Kyoto, Japan - Adolph de Meyer https://creativeramblings.com/favorite-photography/arashiyama-kyoto-japan-adolph-de-meyer/
Sharing my favorite images from the early days of photography… Title: Arashiyama, Kyoto, Japan Date: 1900 Photographer: Baron Adolph de Meyer (1868-1946) Process: gelatin silver print Note: De Meyer owes his fame to his portraits of celebrities, including Mary Pickford, John Barrymore, King George V, and Queen Mary. In 1913, he became the first official fashion photographer for…
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Photography by Baron Adolph de Meyer
The first official fashion photographer for the American magazine Vogue, so gifted that Cecil Beaton dubbed him “the Debussy of photography.”
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Baron Adolph de Meyer, Still Life (Hydrangea), 1907
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baron adolph de meyer in vogue 100: a century of style - robin muir (2016)
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Photograph by Baron Adolph de Meyer, 'Four Trout', 1909, autochrome
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Actress Jeanne Eagels circa 1921, wearing cape of gossamer gold tissue over a dress in tulle with an ostrich ruff by Madeleine Chéruit. Photographed by Baron Adolph de Meyer
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Lady Ottoline Morrell by Baron Adolph de Meyer (platinum print, 1912) © National Portrait Gallery, London, NPG P1008 (CC BY-NC-ND 3.0)
#lady ottoline morrell#baron adolph de meyer#photography#edwardian#fashion#history#historical portraits#Edwardian fashion#adolph de meyer#national portrait gallery#1912#1910s#photograph#my post#beauty#20th century#fave
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Well-born and educated at Eton and the Slade School of Art, W.B. Ellis Ranken 1881/1941 had an idyllic childhood in a wealthy family living on vast estates in Scotland and England.
The Young Polo Player, 1920s
At the Slade 1899/1903, he met Ernest Thesiger, his lover and friend who would remain a part of his lifelong inner circle. Thesiger married Janette, one of Ranken's three sisters, in 1917
Ernest Thesiger,
In 1907, he moved to Chelsea to live among the Edwardian aesthetes. The gay photographer Baron De Meyer and his wife, Olga, became close friends. John Singer Sargent, took him under his wing, their studios were just a stone's throw away
Young Man Sketching 1920s.
Ranken's many clients and friends were gay, lesbian or bisexual. They included composer Cole Porter; writer Violet Keppel Trefusis, lover of Vite Sackville-West;
Hibiscus Flower, c.1922
Anne Morgan, daughter of the famous banker; decorator Elsie de Wolfe, Anne Morgan's lover; dynamic literary agent Elizabeth Marbury, also Wolfe's lover;
Anglo-Indian Student.1922s
Henry Davis Sleeper, and of course collector, companion and long-time friend, actor Ernest Thesiger, who married Ranken's sister Janette in 1917 at his request.
Hall at Warbrook, 1933
But more importantly, are William Lygon, Earl Beauchamp, and his 2nd son, Hugh Lygon, the model for Sebastian Flyte, the catalyst for Evelyn Waugh's most famous novel, Brideshead Revisited.
1927, Hugh Lygon, the model for Sebastian Flyte.
In this life of English high society and its privileges that is reflected in his paintings, Ranken was not openly or explicitly gay, as almost no one else was at the time, simply Ranken was a man of the world, aware of his own nature.
The Garden Door, 1926
W.B. Ellis Ranken at 21yo by Baron Adolph de Meyer, 1902
Although it is not proven, it is likely that these portraits of young people were of his lovers.
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• Portrait of Eleanora Duse.
Date: 1910-1915
Photographer: Baron Adolph de Meyer (North American, 1868-1949)
Medium: Platinum print
#early 20th century portrait#early 20th century picture#early 20th century#1910's#antique#antique photography#antique photograph#antique photo#antique photos#portrait of eleonora duse#baron adolph de meyer#platinum print#1910#1915
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Marquise Luisa Casati by Baron Adolph de Meyer 1912
Luisa Casati Stampa di Soncino, Marchesa di Roma (Milan, 23 January 1881 - London, 1 June 1957) was an eccentric Italian heiress, muse, and patroness of the arts in early 20th century Europe.
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Early photography: Arashiyama, Kyoto, Japan - Adolph de Meyer
Sharing my favorite images from the early days of photography… Title: Arashiyama, Kyoto, Japan Date: 1900 Photographer: Baron Adolph de Meyer (1868-1946) Process: gelatin silver print Note: De Meyer owes his fame to his portraits of celebrities, including Mary Pickford, John Barrymore, King George V, and Queen Mary. In 1913, he became the first official fashion photographer for…
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baron adolphe de meyer in on the edge: images from 100 years of vogue (1992)
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Baron Adolph de Meyer, Rose Dolores, Vogue, May 1919.
Caption: Eager-eyed from under her bridal veil, she gazes in the fortune-telling crystal, hoping to see her dreams there in the clear yet mystery-filled glass. Fastening the draping veil of rose point lace are jeweled wings of platinum set solidly with diamonds and only Cartier could have devised the flexible setting.
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Rose Dolores, April 1919, Vogue, Photo by Baron Adolf de Meyer. Dolores was known for her commanding stage presence and became the star of the Ziegfeld Follies from 1917 until her retirement in 1923. She lived the rest of her life in Paris and during the Second World War helped Allied airmen escape the German occupation.
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