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Fe Alf – Antique Wall Art

Fe Alf, [no date recorded on caption card] — historic photograph
Fe Alf, [no date recorded on caption card]. 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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This rare historic photograph captures Fe Alf in remarkable detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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Fe Alf

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The title on this print is Fe Alf, and its caption card is tagged under dance, though no date or further biography has been recorded. Arnold Genthe, the German-born photographer who worked in San Francisco before moving to New York, built his reputation in the early 1900s with portraits of dancers, actors, and other performers. His studio portraits often relied on soft light and plain backdrops to emphasize gesture and line, so the pose and posture are worth studying closely.

Created / published[no date recorded on caption card]
Medium1 photographic print.
NotesPhotoprint by Arnold Genthe. This record contains unverified data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Dance.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,142 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-158224

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