[Loie Fuller Dancing], ca. 1900, Gelatin silver print, 10.1 x 12.5 cm (4 x 4 15/16 in.), Photographs, Samuel Joshua Beckett (British, Shadwell, Stepney [London] 1870–1940 Bournemouth), The American dancer Loie Fuller (1862-1928) conquered Paris on her opening night at the Folies-Bergère on November 5, 1892. Manipulating with bamboo sticks an immense skirt made of over a hundred yards of translucent, iridescent silk, the dancer evoked organic forms --butterflies, flowers, and flames--in perpetual metamorphosis through a play of colored lights
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Loie Fuller Dancing, ca, 1900, Gelatin silver print, 10.1 x 12.5 cm, 4 4 15/16, Photographs, Samuel Joshua Beckett, British, Shadwell, Stepney [London], 1870–1940, Bournemouth, American, dancer, Loie, Fuller, 1862-1928, conquered Paris, opening night, Folies-Bergère, November 5, 1892, Manipulating, bamboo sticks, immense skirt, hundred yards, translucent, iridescent silk, dancer evoked, organic, forms, butterflies, flowers, flames, perpetual metamorphosis, play, colored lights
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