[Ballets Russes] Nijinsky, Waslaw. (1889-1950) [Struss, Karl. (1886 - 1981). Original Photograph in " Till Eulenspiegel". Rare original 1916 silver gelatin photograph by Karl Struss of Nijinsky in Till Eulenspiegel. With credit stamp and copyright annotation in ink on the verso. 5 x 4 in. (12.7 x 10.2cm.)
Till Eulenspiegel was created for the American tour of the Ballets Russes in 1916. One of the four known works choreographed by Nijinsky, it was a collaboration with the young American designer/architect Robert Edmond Jones, set to a symphonic poem by Richard Strauss. Till is a middle European folk hero who disrupts his town until he is condemned to death, and, like Petrouchka, defies it. Nijinsky and Jones created a distorted medieval world of grotesque beggars and aristocratic women dwarfed by their costumes.
American photographer Karl Struss was also known as a cinematographer and was one of the earliest pioneers of 3-D films ("stereo cinematography"). In 1919, he moved from New York to Los Angeles and signed on with Cecil B. DeMille as a cameraman and subsequently worked on many films.
Till Eulenspiegel was created for the American tour of the Ballets Russes in 1916. One of the four known works choreographed by Nijinsky, it was a collaboration with the young American designer/architect Robert Edmond Jones, set to a symphonic poem by Richard Strauss. Till is a middle European folk hero who disrupts his town until he is condemned to death, and, like Petrouchka, defies it. Nijinsky and Jones created a distorted medieval world of grotesque beggars and aristocratic women dwarfed by their costumes.
American photographer Karl Struss was also known as a cinematographer and was one of the earliest pioneers of 3-D films ("stereo cinematography"). In 1919, he moved from New York to Los Angeles and signed on with Cecil B. DeMille as a cameraman and subsequently worked on many films.
[Ballets Russes] Nijinsky, Waslaw. (1889-1950) [Struss, Karl. (1886 - 1981). Original Photograph in " Till Eulenspiegel". Rare original 1916 silver gelatin photograph by Karl Struss of Nijinsky in Till Eulenspiegel. With credit stamp and copyright annotation in ink on the verso. 5 x 4 in. (12.7 x 10.2cm.)
Till Eulenspiegel was created for the American tour of the Ballets Russes in 1916. One of the four known works choreographed by Nijinsky, it was a collaboration with the young American designer/architect Robert Edmond Jones, set to a symphonic poem by Richard Strauss. Till is a middle European folk hero who disrupts his town until he is condemned to death, and, like Petrouchka, defies it. Nijinsky and Jones created a distorted medieval world of grotesque beggars and aristocratic women dwarfed by their costumes.
American photographer Karl Struss was also known as a cinematographer and was one of the earliest pioneers of 3-D films ("stereo cinematography"). In 1919, he moved from New York to Los Angeles and signed on with Cecil B. DeMille as a cameraman and subsequently worked on many films.
Till Eulenspiegel was created for the American tour of the Ballets Russes in 1916. One of the four known works choreographed by Nijinsky, it was a collaboration with the young American designer/architect Robert Edmond Jones, set to a symphonic poem by Richard Strauss. Till is a middle European folk hero who disrupts his town until he is condemned to death, and, like Petrouchka, defies it. Nijinsky and Jones created a distorted medieval world of grotesque beggars and aristocratic women dwarfed by their costumes.
American photographer Karl Struss was also known as a cinematographer and was one of the earliest pioneers of 3-D films ("stereo cinematography"). In 1919, he moved from New York to Los Angeles and signed on with Cecil B. DeMille as a cameraman and subsequently worked on many films.