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1926, ZIEGFELD SHOWGIRL ALICE WILKIE_BY ALFRED CHENEY JOHNSTON

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1926, ZIEGFELD SHOWGIRL ALICE WILKIE_BY ALFRED CHENEY JOHNSTON
1926, ZIEGFELD SHOWGIRL ALICE WILKIE_BY ALFRED CHENEY JOHNSTON
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  • TITLE: 1926, ZIEGFELD SHOWGIRL ALICE WILKIE_BY ALFRED CHENEY JOHNSTON
  • ARTIST/SOURCE: ALFRED CHENEY JOHNSTON
  • MEDIUM: CONTEMPORARY DYE BASED PHOTOLITHOGRAPH
  • ORIGINAL DATE/PERIOD: 1926
  • DIMENSIONS: 8 X 10"
  • ORIGIN: UNKNOWN
  • DESCRIPTION:
  • This lot is a Dye Based Photolithograph, and is a restoration print, produced 'after' the original photograph. Rather than being a one-of-a-kind work, it is an open edition, non-commercial sheet-fed mechanical print, analagous to the process used for sheet-fed photogravures. The paper is a 200 GSM, 15 MIL, Matte, Double-Weight "Warm Tone", 100% Cotton Rag that is Light Fast and Acid Free. It is enclosed in a polypropolene, archival presentation pocket and reinforced before shipping.

  • Alfred Cheney Johnston (April 8, 1885 – April 17, 1971) was a New York City-based photographer known for his portraits of Ziegfeld Follies showgirls as well as actors and actresses from stage and film. Initially he studied painting and illustration at the National Academy of Design in New York, but after graduating in 1908 his subsequent efforts to earn a living as a portrait painter did not meet with success. Instead, he started to employ the camera previously used to record his painting subjects as his basic creative medium.

    In approximately 1917, Johnston was hired by famed New York City live-theater showman and producer Florenz Ziegfeld as a contracted photographer, and was affiliated with the Ziegfeld Follies for the next fifteen years or so. He also maintained his own highly successful personal commercial photo studio at various locations around New York City as well, photographing everything from aspiring actresses and society matrons to a wide range of upscale retail commercial products—mostly men's and women's fashions—for magazine ads. He photographed several hundred actresses and showgirls (mainly in New York City, whether they were part of the Follies or not) during that time period.

    For his indoor studio work, Johnston often employed a large "Century"-brand view camera that produced 11x14-inch glass-plate negatives, so a standard Johnston 11x14 photographic print was actually just a "contact print" from the negative and not enlarged at all. This size of negative afforded extremely fine image detail. (However, Johnston also is confirmed to have shot with a Graflex camera in 3-1/4 x 4-1/4-inch roll-film format; an unknown brand of 8x10 view camera; and a Zeiss Ikon camera in 120 [2-1/4 x 2-1/4-inch] film format.) Alfred Cheney Johnston died in a car crash near his home in Connecticut on April 17, 1971, three years after the death of his longtime wife, Doris.

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    1926, ZIEGFELD SHOWGIRL ALICE WILKIE_BY ALFRED CHENEY JOHNSTON

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