JOSEPHINE BAKER, image to illustrate an advertisement for Co - Lot 114

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JOSEPHINE BAKER, image to illustrate an advertisement for Co - Lot 114
JOSEPHINE BAKER, image to illustrate an advertisement for Columbia records, 1940s Photo by Harcourt, later silver print (1950s or 60s) Studio credit in image and muted back Dimensions: 29.7 x 21 cm Slight thumbtack hole at each corner. Note: Josephine Baker (1906-1975), Franco-American dancer, singer and actress, was one of the major figures of the music-hall and international art scene of the XXᵉ century. Revealed in Paris in the 1920s with the Revue nègre, she enjoyed an exceptional career in show business, cinema and recording. This photograph, taken by Studio Harcourt, was used to illustrate an advertisement for Columbia records in the 1940s. The photograph shown is a later print (1950s or 1960s) of an emblematic image of the artist, produced in the characteristic Harcourt portrait aesthetic, renowned for its careful lighting and elegant staging of entertainment personalities. The image is part of the promotional iconography devoted to Josephine Baker at the time of her great popularity in the world of music hall and musical recording.
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