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[Buster Keaton, full-length portrait, seated, in costume] – Vintage Wall Art

[Buster Keaton, full-length portrait, seated, in costume], 1939 — historic photograph
[Buster Keaton, full-length portrait, seated, in costume], 1939. 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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[Buster Keaton, full-length portrait, seated, in costume]

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Seated and in costume, Buster Keaton fills this full-length frame, a rarer pose than the close-up head shots that usually circulated with his name. By 1939 he was well past his peak as a silent-era star, having left MGM in 1933 and spent the decade in shorts and supporting roles. Publicity pictures like this one served newspapers and studios, which kept large morgues of images for stories about performers. The stone-faced deadpan that made him famous in films such as *The General* (1926) is the quality most worth looking for here.

Created / published1939
Medium1 photographic print.
GenrePortrait photographs 1930-1940.Publicity photographs 1930-1940.Photographic prints 1930-1940.
NotesForms part of: New York World-Telegram and the Sun Newspaper Photograph Collection (Library of Congress).
SubjectsKeaton, Buster,--1895-1966--Performances.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan3,303 × 4,096 px · prints to 11 × 14 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-202123

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