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[Stark Young, half-length portrait, facing front] / World Telegram photo by Al Aumuller. – Antique Photo Print

[Stark Young, half-length portrait, facing front] / World Telegram photo by Al Aumuller., 1940 — historic photograph
[Stark Young, half-length portrait, facing front] / World Telegram photo by Al Aumuller., 1940. 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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[Stark Young, half-length portrait, facing front] / World Telegram photo by Al Aumuller.

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Stark Young, the Mississippi-born writer and critic, sits for this front-facing, half-length portrait taken in 1940 by Al Aumuller, a photographer for the New York World-Telegram. By then Young was best known as drama critic for The New Republic and as the author of So Red the Rose (1934), a novel about a Mississippi family before and during the Civil War. He was also a respected translator of Chekhov, whose plays he helped bring to American audiences. The newspaper's staff portraits of this kind were routine studio-style sittings, and the photo offers a direct view of a man who shaped American theater writing for decades.

Created / published1940
Medium1 photographic print.
GenrePortrait photographs 1940.Photographic prints 1940.
NotesNew York World-Telegram and the Sun Newspaper Photograph Collection (Library of Congress).
SubjectsYoung, Stark,--1881-1963.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan3,286 × 4,096 px · prints to 11 × 14 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-193740

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