28 December 2008

Evelyn Nesbit, Victorian Photographic Portrait By Gertrude Käsebier c. 1901


I am fascinated by the conflicting symbolism that I see in these things. I have a reading list about Victorian portraiture of women and such, but I haven't gotten the chance to do any pondering yet.

New York circa 1901. "Evelyn Nesbit, age 16, brought to the studio by Stanford White." A chorus girl turned artists' model, Evelyn Nesbit was at the center of a huge scandal in 1906 when her husband killed her former lover, the architect Stanford White. 8x10 glass negative by Gertrude Käsebier.

via: Shorpy
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