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"Young Women Dance on a Calif Clifftop, 1928 by E.O. Hoppe." #Dança #eohoppe Via Cult of Aphrodite Vintage no Facebook

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Hoppé Tuesday

 E.O. Hoppé, Maria Corda, actress, UFA Studios, Berlin, 1928

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Hoppé Tuesday 

E.O. Hoppé, Workers, Cammell Laird Shipyards, Merseyside, 1928

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Hoppé Tuesday

Austrian-born dancer Tilly Losch as photographed by E.O. Hoppé in 1928, the year of her London debut.

See a video of her work HERE.

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E.O. Hoppé was the "most famous photographer in the world in the 1920s." Among his subjects were leading authors, celebrities, and people of all social stations, from royalty to commoners. One of his most explored subjects was the famous Ballet Russes, which Hoppé regularly photographed during their London seasons between 1911 and 1921. 

This world-renowned dance company challenged the traditional idea of ballets' 'feminine fragility' by introducing modernism into this once sedate and highly mannered medium. Led by Sergei Diaghilev, the Ballet Russes truly embodied the concept of “Gesamtkunstwerk,” where every single aspect of the ballet--the costumes, set design, music, and choreography-- were all integrated as a total work of art. Using such iconoclastic visual artists as Picasso, Matisse, Bakst and Benoit with discordant musical compositions from composers such as Stravinsky, and the dynamic and also shocking movements of their premiere dancer, Vaslav Nijinsky, the Ballet Russes forced the entire art world into the Modern Era.