John Barrymore – Antique Print
![John Barrymore, [no date recorded on caption card] — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/56/564995958ac0-L.webp)
(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.)
Description
John Barrymore 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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John Barrymore
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John Barrymore, the stage and screen actor, is the subject of this portrait by Arnold Genthe, the San Francisco-born photographer who became known for his studio portraits of theater people, dancers and writers in New York and San Francisco in the early twentieth century. Barrymore was a leading figure of the American stage, admired for his Hamlet and later for a long film career, so the picture belongs to a wider tradition of celebrity portraiture built around performers. The caption card gives no date, and the details here come from that unverified record, so the print is best read as a document of how a stage star was presented to the public in Genthe's era.
| Created / published | [no date recorded on caption card] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print. |
| Notes | Photoprint by Arnold Genthe. This record contains unverified data from caption card. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,500 × 2,023 px · prints to 5 × 7 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-158225 |
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