Maurice Goldberg

**mrcheese** · November 1st, 2009, 08:29 AM

Maurice Goldberg

Time Period: 1913-1949
Location: East 48th St., Manhattan

"Born in Russia in 1881, Maurice Goldberg emigrated to the United States in 1905, married the next year, and set up residence on Bryant Avenue in the Bronx. He was one of the first call photographers from 1915 to the mid-1930s for illustrations of theatrical productions for New York Magazines--significant bodies of work appear in SHADOWLAND, VANITY FAIR, STAGE, and THE THEATRE. While he maintained a studio for shooting celebrity portraits, he preferred to be on site at the theaters and in the countryside where dance was going on. One of the major camera artists of the stage, he served as the model for younger photographers, for instance Maurice Seymour in Chicago. From the 1930s until supplanted by Alfredo Valente @ 1938, Goldberg published photos illustrating John Martin’s NEW YORK TIMES commentaries on the state of dance. He was George Gershwin’s favorite photographer and one of Goldberg’s images of Gershwin at the piano has become an iconic image of popular American music. From 1948 to his death in 1949 in Los Angeles he worked as a still photographer for Universal.
The greatest dance photographer of the 1920s and 30s, a talented portraitist, a chronicler of persons in the performing arts. Maurice Goldberg liked to show dancers and musicians engaged in performance, yet preferred to show actors and actresses relaxing. Even using large format photographic plates and slow film Goldberg could communicate motion better than Arnold Genthe, who obscured action in shadow, and Nickolas Muray, who liked to pose dancers in stances of arrested torsion in his studio. Goldberg depicted dancers doing the choreography of the works they performed in public. He preferred prints in smaller formats. In the 1920s had a penchant for soft-focus images, but the imagery sharpened in the 1930s. In 1920s sometimes did glamour photography, nudes, and was one of the strongest promoters of the late 1910s early '20s fad of plein air dancing photography. At the end of his career did two years of still photography for movie studios." © David S. Shields
http://broadway.cas.sc.edu/index.php...ographer&id=39

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**mrcheese** · March 4th, 2012, 05:50 AM

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November 1st, 2009, 08:29 AM	#1
mrcheese Vintage Member Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Kyiv Posts: 578 Thanks: 44 Thanked 17,718 Times in 579 Posts	Maurice Goldberg Maurice Goldberg Time Period: 1913-1949 Location: East 48th St., Manhattan "Born in Russia in 1881, Maurice Goldberg emigrated to the United States in 1905, married the next year, and set up residence on Bryant Avenue in the Bronx. He was one of the first call photographers from 1915 to the mid-1930s for illustrations of theatrical productions for New York Magazines--significant bodies of work appear in SHADOWLAND, VANITY FAIR, STAGE, and THE THEATRE. While he maintained a studio for shooting celebrity portraits, he preferred to be on site at the theaters and in the countryside where dance was going on. One of the major camera artists of the stage, he served as the model for younger photographers, for instance Maurice Seymour in Chicago. From the 1930s until supplanted by Alfredo Valente @ 1938, Goldberg published photos illustrating John Martin’s NEW YORK TIMES commentaries on the state of dance. He was George Gershwin’s favorite photographer and one of Goldberg’s images of Gershwin at the piano has become an iconic image of popular American music. From 1948 to his death in 1949 in Los Angeles he worked as a still photographer for Universal. The greatest dance photographer of the 1920s and 30s, a talented portraitist, a chronicler of persons in the performing arts. Maurice Goldberg liked to show dancers and musicians engaged in performance, yet preferred to show actors and actresses relaxing. Even using large format photographic plates and slow film Goldberg could communicate motion better than Arnold Genthe, who obscured action in shadow, and Nickolas Muray, who liked to pose dancers in stances of arrested torsion in his studio. Goldberg depicted dancers doing the choreography of the works they performed in public. He preferred prints in smaller formats. In the 1920s had a penchant for soft-focus images, but the imagery sharpened in the 1930s. In 1920s sometimes did glamour photography, nudes, and was one of the strongest promoters of the late 1910s early '20s fad of plein air dancing photography. At the end of his career did two years of still photography for movie studios." © David S. Shields http://broadway.cas.sc.edu/index.php...ographer&id=39 Albertina Rasch Alla Nazimova Ann Harding Carlotta Monterey Clara Kimball Young Desha Desiree Lubovska (Winniefred Foote) Fay Bainter Gloria Swanson Laurette Taylor Margery Maude Marguerite Agniel Marjorie Rambeau Ruth Paige Senia Gluck, Felicia Sorel Life and Death Odalisque Vera Fokina as Salome Last edited by Wendigo; July 24th, 2020 at 03:27 PM.. Reason: removed dead images

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mrcheese Vintage Member Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Kyiv Posts: 578 Thanks: 44 Thanked 17,718 Times in 579 Posts	Ada Forman, Gloria Swanson, Harald Kreutzberg, Jeanne Eagels, Margaret Severn, Marie Prevost, Mary Astor, Nance O'Neil, Natacha Nattova, Tilly Losch, Vera Fokina, Vivienne Osborne [ mod edit - dead link(s) removed] Last edited by Wendigo; April 30th, 2016 at 11:19 AM.. Reason: removed dead link