George Maillard Kesslere

**mrcheese** · November 18th, 2009, 11:09 AM

George Maillard Kesslere

Time Period: 1921-1952
Location: 11 W. 46th Street, 44 East 50th Street, Manhattan

“Kesslere devoted his photographic art to theatrical portraiture and fashion. Trained as a painter, he pursued a parallel career as a fine artist, excelling in pastels. In the mid-1920s following the lead of Orval Hixon and M. I. Boris, he developed a style of vignette photography in which a portrait bust would float disembodied in pictorial space coalescing out of a drawn rendering of the sitter. The success of these mixed media portraits led others, for instance Hal Phyfe, John De Mirjian, even Irving Chidnoff to experiment with the style, leading to a moment in 1926-27 when a distinct New York style of art portraiture prevailed Even in the later 1930s, when a straight style of depiction became standard, Kesslere's images were so heavily retouched that they seemed graphic rather than photographic. He signed his portraits: G. Maillard Kesslere, B.P.”
© David S. Shields
http://broadway.cas.sc.edu/index.php...ographer&id=38

Billie Burke, Dorothy Dickson, Earl Carroll Vanities, Estelle Winwood, Marion Benda, Mary Brian, Norma Talmadge, etc.

**mrcheese** · April 20th, 2010, 01:32 PM

Clare Carter, Dorothy Dickson, Dorothy Knapp, Ruth Page, Tallulah Bankhead, Tessa Kosta:

Maria Gambarelli:

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**johnbear** · February 22nd, 2015, 12:55 AM

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November 18th, 2009, 11:09 AM	#1
mrcheese Vintage Member Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Kyiv Posts: 578 Thanks: 44 Thanked 17,705 Times in 579 Posts	George Maillard Kesslere George Maillard Kesslere Time Period: 1921-1952 Location: 11 W. 46th Street, 44 East 50th Street, Manhattan “Kesslere devoted his photographic art to theatrical portraiture and fashion. Trained as a painter, he pursued a parallel career as a fine artist, excelling in pastels. In the mid-1920s following the lead of Orval Hixon and M. I. Boris, he developed a style of vignette photography in which a portrait bust would float disembodied in pictorial space coalescing out of a drawn rendering of the sitter. The success of these mixed media portraits led others, for instance Hal Phyfe, John De Mirjian, even Irving Chidnoff to experiment with the style, leading to a moment in 1926-27 when a distinct New York style of art portraiture prevailed Even in the later 1930s, when a straight style of depiction became standard, Kesslere's images were so heavily retouched that they seemed graphic rather than photographic. He signed his portraits: G. Maillard Kesslere, B.P.” © David S. Shields http://broadway.cas.sc.edu/index.php...ographer&id=38 Billie Burke, Dorothy Dickson, Earl Carroll Vanities, Estelle Winwood, Marion Benda, Mary Brian, Norma Talmadge, etc. Last edited by mrcheese; April 20th, 2010 at 01:16 PM..

April 20th, 2010, 01:32 PM	#2
mrcheese Vintage Member Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Kyiv Posts: 578 Thanks: 44 Thanked 17,705 Times in 579 Posts	Clare Carter, Dorothy Dickson, Dorothy Knapp, Ruth Page, Tallulah Bankhead, Tessa Kosta: Maria Gambarelli: [ mod edit - dead link(s) removed] Last edited by Wendigo; May 1st, 2016 at 07:32 PM.. Reason: removed dead links

February 22nd, 2015, 12:55 AM	#3
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