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Lot Essay
Celebrated American dancer Isadora Duncan (1877–1927), was photographed by several important photographers including Arnold Genthe, Abraham Walkowitz and of course, Edward Steichen.
The present image is one from a series that Steichen made of the dancer in Greece, at the Parthenon in 1921. Steichen was in Greece with the dancer at this time because Duncan had offered to give him the opportunity to film her in motion, an offer not before made to any photographer. In the end, she changed her mind and Steichen resorted to capturing a handful of images of Duncan with a borrowed camera, this image among them. The present lot is an early, mounted print, bearing the stamp of the Hawley Advertising Company on Madison Avenue on the reverse.
The present image is one from a series that Steichen made of the dancer in Greece, at the Parthenon in 1921. Steichen was in Greece with the dancer at this time because Duncan had offered to give him the opportunity to film her in motion, an offer not before made to any photographer. In the end, she changed her mind and Steichen resorted to capturing a handful of images of Duncan with a borrowed camera, this image among them. The present lot is an early, mounted print, bearing the stamp of the Hawley Advertising Company on Madison Avenue on the reverse.