Strauss-Peyton & Bert’s Studios

**mrcheese** · November 15th, 2009, 11:40 AM

Strauss-Peyton
Time Period: 1903-1929
Location: Troost Street, & 12th St., Kansas City
“In the 1910s, Benjamin Strauss specialized in formal portraits of Kansas City notables. After he added Homer Peyton as partner, the business expanded to theatrical photography. Peyton was the graphic artist, performing pictorialist manipulations of the negative to form aesthetic backgrounds, sculpt shadows, and supply tonal drama. Strauss-Peyton's large format prints are noteworthy for their richness of texture. Because of Kansas City's importance as a transportation hub, it was the juncture of three different theatrical circuits. Strauss-Peyton, like their rivals, Orval Hixon, James Hargis Connelly and Bert Studio, secured a national reputation as celebrity portraitists. Images regularly appeared in 1920s Movie and Theater magazines.”
© David S. Shields http://broadway.cas.sc.edu/index.php...ographer&id=51
“Because Ziegfeld's favorite photographer, Alfred Cheney Johnston, also painted backgrounds onto certain of his negatives, Ziegfeld only used Peyton during those periods when ACJ was away from New York--during the 1921-22 ventures to Hollywood, and during a vacation in 1928. The photograph of Anastasia Rielly shows Peyton a master of the drape shot, that genre that Johnston popularized among performing arts photographers.”
© David S. Shields http://historicalziegfeld.multiply.c...Strauss-Peyton

Anna Case

Constance Talmadge

Jeanne Eagles

Julia Marlowe

Lenore Ulric

Lillie Langtry

Louise Brooks

Louise Groody

Mae Busch

Marguerite De La Motte

Marilyn Miller

May Wirth

Myrtle Stedman

Olive Thomas

Pola Negri

Ruth St Denis

Sonia De Calve

Valeska Suratt

Virginia Pearson

**mrcheese** · May 28th, 2010, 06:19 AM

Fay Bainter, 1917.

**johnbear** · February 27th, 2015, 11:35 PM

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November 15th, 2009, 11:40 AM	#1
mrcheese Vintage Member Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Kyiv Posts: 578 Thanks: 44 Thanked 17,715 Times in 579 Posts	Strauss-Peyton & Bert’s Studios Strauss-Peyton Time Period: 1903-1929 Location: Troost Street, & 12th St., Kansas City “In the 1910s, Benjamin Strauss specialized in formal portraits of Kansas City notables. After he added Homer Peyton as partner, the business expanded to theatrical photography. Peyton was the graphic artist, performing pictorialist manipulations of the negative to form aesthetic backgrounds, sculpt shadows, and supply tonal drama. Strauss-Peyton's large format prints are noteworthy for their richness of texture. Because of Kansas City's importance as a transportation hub, it was the juncture of three different theatrical circuits. Strauss-Peyton, like their rivals, Orval Hixon, James Hargis Connelly and Bert Studio, secured a national reputation as celebrity portraitists. Images regularly appeared in 1920s Movie and Theater magazines.” © David S. Shields http://broadway.cas.sc.edu/index.php...ographer&id=51 “Because Ziegfeld's favorite photographer, Alfred Cheney Johnston, also painted backgrounds onto certain of his negatives, Ziegfeld only used Peyton during those periods when ACJ was away from New York--during the 1921-22 ventures to Hollywood, and during a vacation in 1928. The photograph of Anastasia Rielly shows Peyton a master of the drape shot, that genre that Johnston popularized among performing arts photographers.” © David S. Shields http://historicalziegfeld.multiply.c...Strauss-Peyton Anna Case Constance Talmadge Jeanne Eagles Julia Marlowe Lenore Ulric Lillie Langtry Louise Brooks Louise Groody Mae Busch Marguerite De La Motte Marilyn Miller May Wirth Myrtle Stedman Olive Thomas Pola Negri Ruth St Denis Sonia De Calve Valeska Suratt Virginia Pearson Last edited by Wendigo; July 25th, 2020 at 06:37 AM.. Reason: removed dead images

May 28th, 2010, 06:19 AM	#2
mrcheese Vintage Member Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Kyiv Posts: 578 Thanks: 44 Thanked 17,715 Times in 579 Posts	Fay Bainter, 1917.

February 27th, 2015, 11:35 PM	#3
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