Loie Fuller Dancing, Samuel Joshua Beckett, ca. 1900

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Loie Fuller Dancing, ca. 1900, Gelatin silver print, x cm (4 x 4 15/16 in.), Photographs, Samuel Joshua Beckett (British, Shadwell, Stepney London 1870–1940 Bournemouth), The American dancer Loie Fuller (1862-1928) conquered Paris on her opening night at the Folies-Bergère on November 5, 1892. Manipulating with bamboo sticks an immense skirt made of over a hundred yards of translucent, iridescent silk, the dancer evoked organic forms --butterflies, flowers, and flames--in perpetual metamorphosis through a play of colored lights

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Size: 4915px × 3973px
Photo credit: © Artokoloro / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No

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