Josephine Baker

Meyer, Adolf de (1868-1949)

Item type:

photographic object

Date of creation:

1925-1926

Height:

45.2 cm  (17 13/16 in.)

Width:

29.5 cm  (11 5/8 in.)

Technique / Medium:

direct carbon print

Place of creation:

Paris (France)

Description

Josephine Baker wears an ornate, strapless dress, accessorized with pearl beads and some kind of jeweled chain hanging from her left arm. She has two jeweled bracelets on her right arm, and is photographed in soft focus against a glittery backdrop.

People as subjects

Baker, Josephine (1906-1975) (Dancer)

Image URLs

image link 1

Notes

From the Met Museum web entry: "The Saint Louis, Missouri–born Josephine Baker arrived in Paris in 1925 and quickly made a sensation as part of the all-black Revue Nègre, a musical entertainment that capitalized on the French craze for American Jazz. Famously donning a banana skirt for her danse sauvage, Baker crafted performances that astutely deployed the stereotypes white Europeans associated with blackness, recouping them as instruments of her own empowerment and success. Baker shines amid the glittering backdrop and soft focus of de Meyer’s photograph, creating an iconic image of stardom."

RIdIM record id

5077

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