Artist
Bert
Bert is an artist. 1 work is cataloged here, principally at Victoria and Albert Museum.
Bert was the guy who followed the music right into the costume shop and never left. He caught Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes in 1911 and photographed the new ballet Petrushka every night the lead dancer wobbled onstage. The backstage prints show sweat under the greasepaint and one costume torn at the elbow, details you’ll never see in the stiff museum posters.
Look up the 1911 gelatin-silver print titled Petrushka in the public domain; the grainy shadows of the puppet’s limp wrists are the whole show in one frame.
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