Historical Portrait
[Portrait of Philip Langner]
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1 photographic print : gelatin silver. | Photograph shows Philip Langner (1926-), son of Lawrence Langner and Armina Marshall, a white, male, American child and later theater and film producer.
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Carl Van Vechten photographed Philip Langner in 1935, when the boy was about nine years old. The archive record identifies him as the son of Lawrence Langner and Armina Marshall, and notes that he later worked as a theater and film producer.
The photograph is a gelatin silver print, a common photographic process of the period. Van Vechten made many portrait photographs during the 1930s, building an extensive body of work that documented cultural figures of his time.
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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