Chaplin with photographer James Abbe, in and out of costume, 1922
Abbe made his name as a portraitist to the stars of theater and film in the 1920s, as well as a pioneer photojournalist documenting firsthand cultural and political situations around Europe. He was born in Maine, and his family moved to Newport News, Virginia where his father opened a bookstore.
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James Abbe, a photographer who became an American folk art expert and dealer, died on Oct. 7 at his home in Brookville, N.Y. He was 87. Mr. Abbe, who was born in Lynchburg, Va., began his.
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James Abbe (1883 - 1973) was an American photographer. His career as international photographer was first boosted by the Washington Post, which commissioned him to travel and take photographs of a 16-day voyage with the American battleship fleet to England and France in 1910. Many years later he traveled throughout Europe as a young photojournalist
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American, 1883-1973. James Abbe, who dubbed himself "the tramp photographer," was a pioneering portraitist and photojournalist, who captured the international stars of stage and screen, as well as the early 20th-century power struggles across the Soviet Union and Europe.. Discover and purchase James Abbe's artworks, available for sale.
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The first museum retrospective of the American photographer James Abbe (1883-1973), now at the National Portrait Gallery, is called "In the Limelight" and one of the most touching pictures is.
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James Abbe was a serial monogamist who married and left three wives before settling on a fourth. He had children by three of these women, and several of these offspring proved talented, making names and careers for themselves.. In my book Still: American Silent Motion Picture Photography I detail Abbe's efforts as director for substantial.
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James Abbe (1883 - 1973) was an American photographer. Abbe had a remarkable talent for inspiring trust in stars and Lillian Gish convinced him to come to Italy in 1923 to work as a lighting consultant and still photographer for "The White Sister." He closed his Broadway studio, abandoned his wife and children, and moved to Italy.
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James Abbe, a photographer who became an American folk art expert and dealer, died on Oct. 7 at his home in Brookville, N.Y. He was 87. Mr. Abbe, who was born in Lynchburg, Va., began his career in the early 1930's as an assistant to his father, the pioneering photographer James Abbe Sr., who had a studio in Paris.
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James Abbe, James Edward Abbe, Abbe, James Edward Abbé Ulan 500026671 View the full Getty record. Information from Getty. Exhibition In the Twenties: Portraits from the Photography Collection. Nov 14, 1979-Mar 16, 1980. MoMA. Licensing.
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"J ames Abbe Photographer" is the first American retrospective to feature the work of the international photographer. A native of Newport News, Abbe (1883-1973) made a name for himself photographing stars of the stage and cinema in New York, Paris, and London in the 1920s and '30s.
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Luminous-Lint collecting photography Photographer James Abbe. • Beaton, Cecil & Buckland, Gail 1975 The Magic Eye: The Genius of Photography from 1839 to the Present Day (Boston and Toronto: Little, Brown & Company) p.185 [Useful short biographies with personal asides and one or more example images.] • Capa, Cornell (ed.) 1984 The International Center of Photography: Encyclopedia of.
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James Abbe "During the 1920s and 1930s, James Abbe was among the best-known and most-widely published photographers on the international scene. Prolifically photographing the leading luminaries of the era, Abbe was central to the development of the concept of media-induced celebrity."
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15 West 67th St., Corner of Broadway & 47th Street, Manhattan NY Biography: (1883-1973) Born in Alfred, Maine, James Abbe's boyhood took place in Portsmouth, Virginia. His family owned the most important bookstore in that maritime city. At its counter James sold his photographs of ship launchings and arrivals taken with an inexpensive camera.
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James Abbe (1883-1973) was one of the leading American celebrity photographers of the 1920s and is best known for his iconic portraits of stars of the cinema and stage including Rudolph Valentino and Natasha Rambova, Dorothy and Lillian Gish, the Dolly sisters, Bessie Love and Louise Brooks.
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James Abbe photographed Charlie Chaplin several times over his career, including a series of still images for "The Pilgrim," in 1922. One of the portraits (below), in a Parson's hat with arms outstretched, is included in the exhibit: "Charlie Chaplin: A Vision," produced by the Musée de l'Elysée in Lausanne, Switzerland, and now showing at the Yuz Museum in Shanghai, through.