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Anita Zahn, Elizabeth Duncan School – Historic Reproduction

Anita Zahn, Elizabeth Duncan School — historic photograph
Anita Zahn, Elizabeth Duncan School. Historic photograph from the Historic Print Archive collection.

(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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Anita Zahn is the dancer named in this picture, shown as a student at the Elizabeth Duncan School, which taught the movement ideas of Elizabeth's sister, Isadora Duncan. Those ideas rejected rigid ballet technique in favor of natural, flowing motion, often performed barefoot in loose, Greek-inspired tunics. The photograph is by Arnold Genthe, the German-born portraitist who built his reputation photographing dancers and performers in New York and San Francisco in the early 1900s. The record gives no date, so the picture is best viewed as part of that broader movement in modern dance.

Medium1 photographic print.
Notes[no date recorded on caption card]
SubjectsPhoto by Arnold Genthe. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Dance--Modern; BI; Photog. I.; Shelf. Sources checked: ONC; WWW; Webster's.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,145 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-135416

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