Ruth St. Denis – Antique Print
(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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Ruth St. Denis comes to life in this historic photograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Ruth St. Denis
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Ruth St. Denis, the dancer and choreographer, is the person this glass negative records, and the Bain News Service caption card attached to it is the only source naming her. St. Denis helped shape American modern dance in the early twentieth century; she co-founded the Denishawn school with Ted Shawn in 1915 and drew on Asian and Egyptian motifs in works that broke with ballet conventions. The Bain collection came from a news photography agency active in New York from about 1900 to 1915, which photographed theatrical figures for newspapers, so the portrait belongs to that press trade. The date and setting are not recorded, so the negative is best read as a document of her public image during those years.
| Created / published | n/a |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller. |
| Genre | Glass negatives. |
| Notes | Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress). Title from unverified data provided by the Bain News Service on the negatives or caption cards. Temp. note: Batch two loaded. |
| Source | Library of Congress, George Grantham Bain Collection |
| Original scan | 4,222 × 5,810 px · prints to 14 × 19 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-7132 |
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