An anonymous Paramount Studios photographer captured this likeness of the one-and-only Marlene Dietrich, a German-American known for her sophisticated sexuality and dry wit. The original picture of the screen goddess was a gelatin silver print, a process popular beginning in the twenties for its glossy results, as photography evolved from pictorialism into an art form of its own.
Portrait of Marlene Dietrich, c.1923, Gelatin Silver PrintParamount Pictures American (c.1912 - ) |
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An anonymous Paramount Studios photographer captured this likeness of the one-and-only Marlene Dietrich, a German-American known for her sophisticated sexuality and dry wit. The original picture of the screen goddess was a gelatin silver print, a process popular beginning in the twenties for its glossy results, as photography evolved from pictorialism into an art form of its own. |
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