"Dancing study" 1919 by Waldemar Eide 1886-1963

Lovely quality. this is plate XXVII from a vintage copy of Photograms of the Year 1919, the annual publication of pictorial photography.

Waldemar Eide was a Norwegian photographer and painter. He worked in Stavanger and was one of the first Norwegian professional photographers to consider himself a visual artist. Had great significance for the amateur photographer environments. He exhibited at home and abroad. Eide won several awards for his work. Waldemar Eide was one of the first photographers to see himself as a pictorial artist. He regularly exhibited his works in Norway and abroad and is often described as a photographer who was more known in Europe than at home. He participated in exhibitions and won several prizes for his photos. Eide also wrote regularly about art and photography for professional journals and newspapers and is reckoned to have been highly significant for amateur photographers in general and cultural life in Stavanger in particular. He is most well-known, however, for his photos of the Russian ballet dancer Vera Fokina, whom he portrayed in 1919, pictorialist photographs with soft contours and painterly effects.

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