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Maker(s):Cordes, Paul
Culture:American, born Germany (1893 - 1979)
Title:Portrait of Gene Loring of the Ballet Caravan
Date Made:ca. 1936
Type:Photograph
Materials:gelatin silver print mounted on paperboard
Place Made:United States
Measurements:mount: 20 x 16 in.; 50.8 x 40.64 cm; image: 13 5/16 x 10 3/8 in.; 33.8138 x 26.3525 cm
Narrative Inscription:  undated, signed on mat: Cordes
Accession Number:  SC 1938.8.10
Credit Line:Gift of Paul Cordes
Museum Collection:  Smith College Museum of Art
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Description:
portrait of white man with mask

Label Text:
Paul Cordes used dramatic lighting and sharp focus to highlight his subjects. This is a portrait of the dancer Eugene Loring as the title character from his first choreographed ballet, Harlequin for President.

Many early twentieth-century portrait photographers were as concerned with the visual properties of their images as they were with presenting a likeness of the sitter. The light from the left highlights Loring’s face and hands, while his body is enveloped in darkness. His sidelong gaze, accentuated by the black grease paint covering his face, adds to the brooding and melancholy feeling of the image.

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