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The Dance

Photograph
ca. 1900 (photographed)
Artist/Maker
Käsebier, Gertrude (photographer)

Monotone photograph, on paper and mounted to brown card. Depicting a woman and three children dancing.


Object details

Categories
Photographs
The Royal Photographic Society
Children & Childhood
Object type
Photograph
TitleThe Dance (generic title)
Materials and techniques
Bromide print
Photography
Bromide Process
Brief description
Photograph by Gertrude Käsebier, 'The Dance', bromide print, ca. 1900
Physical description
Monotone photograph, on paper and mounted to brown card. Depicting a woman and three children dancing.
Content description
Käsebier studied painting before opening a photography studio in New York. Her Pictorialist photographs often combine soft focus with experimental printing techniques. These sisters were dressed in historic costume for a ball, but their pose transforms a society portrait into a narrative picture. In a variant image, they turn to look at the framed silhouette on the wall. Influenced by scholarly concepts surrounding childhood development, motherhood became a central theme in her practice.
Marks and inscriptions
  • 'Bromide copy of Mrs Kasebier's 'The Dance.' (Handwritten in pen on verso.)
  • 'Received from Demachy June 1936' (Handwritten in pen on verso.)
  • K.3 (Handwritten in pen on verso.)
Credit line
The Royal Photographic Society Collection at the V&A, acquired with the generous assistance of the National Lottery Heritage Fund and Art Fund.
Object history
Object donated to the Royal Photographic Society Collection by Demachy, June 1936.
Other number
K3 - RPS identifier - box number
Collection
Department of Photography
Accession number
RPS.5370-2018

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Record createdOctober 31, 2018
Record URL
https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O1463748/the-dance-photograph-käsebier-gertrude/
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