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[Portrait of Zero Mostel, as Leopold Bloom in Ulysses"]" – Historic Photograph Print

[Portrait of Zero Mostel, as Leopold Bloom in Ulysses"]", 1958 Oct. 29. — historic photograph
[Portrait of Zero Mostel, as Leopold Bloom in Ulysses"]", 1958 Oct. 29.. 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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Zero Mostel appears here in costume as Leopold Bloom, the Dublin advertising canvasser at the center of James Joyce's novel *Ulysses*. The portrait dates to late October 1958, when Mostel was playing Bloom in *Ulysses in Nighttown*, a stage adaptation of the book's Nighttown episode. The role was a major comeback for Mostel, who had been blacklisted from film and television in the early 1950s. The portrait was made by Carl Van Vechten, a photographer known for his sitters from the worlds of theater, music, and literature.

Created / published1958 Oct. 29.
Medium1 photographic print : gelatin silver.
GenrePortrait photographs.
NotesTitle derived from information on verso of photographic print. Van Vechten number: IV QQ 16. Also available on microfilm. Gift; Carl Van Vechten Estate; 1966. Forms part of: Portrait photographs of celebrities, a LOT which in turn forms part of the Carl Van Vechten photograph collection (Library of Congress).
SubjectsMostel, Zero,--1915-1977.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan3,276 × 4,096 px · prints to 11 × 14 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-180531

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