James Abbe - Photographer

James Abbe's choice of a simple, uncluttered backdrop and soft use of lighting accentuates the seductiveness of Gilda Gray, a dancer in Ziegfeld Follies and other Broadway revues. Like many fashion photographs of its time, it promotes a feeling that we are privy to something intimate - as if Gray has been captured unawares, dreamily caught up in her own thoughts with her eyes turned away from the lens. Taken in Paris in 1924, the photograph seizes the essence og mid-1920s eveningwear - a plumb line dress, pssibly by Lanvin or Paton, in filmy, sensuous fabric trimmed with fringed tiers. In the early twentieth century, American stage and screen actresses. His well-mannered work for American Vogue represented what Alexander Liberman called '... an underlying dream of a world where people act and behave in civilized manner'.

 Famous entertainer Mistinguett who performed at Moulin Rouge, picture by James Abbe 1927.

 The Dolly Sisters, Gelatin silver print

 Utterly famous the mermaid costume photograph

 Charlie Chaplin by James Abbe

indypendent-thinking: (via Vintage Photography: Louise Brooks in Prix de Beauté by James Abbe 1930)