Historical Portrait
Model, portrait photograph
Archive record
1 negative : nitrate ; 5 x 7 in.
About this photograph
This portrait photograph was made by Arnold Genthe in 1921, documented as a 5 x 7 inch nitrate negative. The record identifies the subject only as "model" and provides no further details about who appears in the image or the circumstances of the sitting.
Genthe worked in a soft-focus pictorialist style. By 1921 he was operating from New York, having relocated from San Francisco a decade earlier. The Library of Congress holds this negative as part of a collection of roughly 20,000 items acquired from Genthe's unclaimed studio after his death in 1942.
The archive's cataloguing preserves the original notation but offers no information about the model's identity, the session's purpose, or whether this was a professional commission or an artistic study. The photograph remains one of several thousand studio portraits in Genthe's body of work.
Compiled from the catalogue record and reference notes on the formats and events involved. The archive record above is the primary source.
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