Touch Point (inspired by Arnold Genthe)

Date: May 2023

Medium: Digital Photomontage

Location: Santa Cruz, CA

Dimensions: 15” x 20”

© 2023 Tony DeVarco

 

Credit: "Desha and Leah dancing in Port Washington" (detail) by Arnold Genthe, August 21, 1921. Nitrate negative. Genthe photograph collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Rights Advisory: No known restrictions. Downloaded from: www.loc.gov/pictures/resource/agc.7a01044/

 

Photographer Arnold Genthe: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arnold_Genthe

 

A short documentary on Arnold Genthe by San Francisco historian Gloria Lenhart- www.youtube.com/watch?v=ip2oXayNaCk

 

Arnold Genthe's 1920 "Book of Dance" scanned by Google Books and found here: www.google.com/books/edition/The_Book_of_the_Dance/R1NN8X...

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