Historical Portrait
Parker, Dorothy, portrait photograph
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1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in.
About this photograph
Arnold Genthe photographed Dorothy Parker in 1912, the year after he relocated his studio from San Francisco to New York. The portrait survives as a glass negative in the Library of Congress collection.
Genthe worked in the soft-focus pictorialist style across a career of four decades. After maintaining a studio in San Francisco from 1896 to 1911, he moved to New York, where he continued working into the 1940s. When he died in 1942, his studio contents went unclaimed, and the Library of Congress eventually acquired roughly 20,000 items from the estate.
The collection encompasses several thousand studio portraits alongside specialized bodies of work including over 400 images of San Francisco's Chinatown, hundreds of dance photographs, and around 500 autochromes. This portrait of Parker dates from Genthe's first year in New York.
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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