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Hoppe, Emile Otto - "Studies from the Russian Ballet"
German born photographer Emile O. Hoppé ()moved to London in at the age of 24, and later and became one of the most important portrait and documentary photographers of his time. Published in , this set of photo prints, "Studies from the Russian Ballet", is the photographer’s first major publication. At a time when ballet was highly popular, Hoppé photographed most of the leading members of Serge Diaghilev’s Russian Ballet in London. Fifteen of these works are included in this portfolio/folder published by the Fine Art Society London in Plate eight shows Vaslav Nijinsky in the costume of le Spectre de la Rose taken in , and on plate fifteen we see him in the costume of Scheherazade, taken in Both photographs of Nijinsky are taken by Auguste Bert.
Back of the front cover has an index/summary of the plate´s contents. Title leaf is missing.
Due to the fragile nature of a portfolio, and the material used, this is one of the rares
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Hoppé. The studio and the street
E. O. Hoppé was one of the most important and influential photographers of the first half of the 20th century. This exhibition, which brought this artist’s work to Madrid for the first time and gathered together as yet unpublished works, explored his immense contribution to the history of photography with a selection of surprisingly modern portraits and studies of street life.
The exhibition
Having settled in Great Britain since , Emil Otto Hoppé (Munich, – London, ) began his photography career in by opening a studio in the London neighborhood of Baron’s Court, and in a short space of time gained a reputation for being a masterly portraitist. Part of Hoppé’s innate ability to capture the personality of his models was down to his habit of documenting his creative activities, so that the conversation naturally led them to lower their guard and let themselves be photographed in natural poses. With progressive ideas, he made sure
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Emil Otto Hoppé was one of the most active art and documentary photographers of his time. Born in Munich, Hoppé moved to London in his early 20s where he began to exhibit as an amateur photographer. He opened his first photography studio in , expanding to a larger studio by Hoppé became a renowned portrait photographer. His sitters included many luminary personalities from the arts, literature, and politics such as George Bernard Shaw, Thomas Hardy, T.S. Eliot, Vaslav Nijinsky, Queen Mary, King George, and other members of the Royal Family. Hoppé was also known as a talented landscape and travel photographer. He journeyed across Britain and Ireland to study people from all walks of life, but also as far as Cuba, Sri Lanka and New Zealand to expand his body of work. This collecton of 80 photographs depict London in the s and 30s, including famous landmarks such as Big Ben, St Pauls Cathedral and boats on the river Thames. There are also snapshots of day to day l