STUNNING ART DECO OVERSIZED C1920s VAMP STARLET M.I. BORIS SILVER GELATIN PHOTO

Description: WELCOME TO OUR SITE WE HOPE WE CAN HELP YOU FIND YOUR TREASURE AND GEM!Thanks for stopping by our store. We have been with E-Bay since 2001. We specialize in all things Deco, Nouveau, Roaring Twenties & Jazz Age. Bid with complete confidence & Kindly take a moment to look at our other items for sale & auction.WE HAVE A STUNNING COLLECTION OF VINTAGE NUDES FROM ALFRED CHENEY JOHNSTON, EDWIN BOWER HESSER, NASIB, JAMES WALLACE PONDELICEK, ALO, ALTA, ALBERT ARTHUR ALLEN, HARRY RICHARDSON CREMER & OTHERS, SOME ORIGINALLY FRAMED FROM THE ERA. KINDLY CHECK THEM OUTTHIS IMAGE COMES FROM A COLLECTOR FRIEND IN LOS ANGELESPHOTOGRAPHER: M.I. BORIS N.Y. AKA BORIS MAJDRAKOFF. SIGNED IN NEGATIVE LOWER RIGHT IMAGE. PICTURES #8-10 ARE NOT FLAWS BUT CLOSE UP VIEWS OF THE ETCHING IN THE IMAGESUBJECT: UNKNOWN STARLETDESCRIPTION: VERY UNIQUE LIGHT GREEN SEPIA SILVER GELATIN PHOTOGRAPH, DIFFERENT FROM THE OTHERS IN THE COLLECTION, ATTACHED TO LIGHT WEIGHT PAPER. M.I. BORIS PORTRAITS ARE VERY RARE, ESPECIALLY IN THESE LARGER FORMATS. HE PERSONALLY ETCHED DESIGNS IN THE IMAGE & BACKGROUNDS ON THE PHOTOGRAPHIC PLATES OF HIS PORTRAITS. GORGEOUS SILVER GELATIN PHOTOSIZE: 10 x 10 1/2"FINISH: MATTEPAPER WEIGHT: DOUBLE DATE OF PRINTING: C1923, PRINTED IN THE ERA IT WAS TAKENCONDITION: EXCELLENT CONDITION, INCIDENTAL HANDLING MARKS & WEAR TO IMAGE, BORDERS & CORNERS, THE PAPER THAT ITS IS ATTACHED TO IS EXTREMELY OLD & SOMEWHAT FRAGILE BUT WE LEFT IT INTACT, ALTHOUGH THE PAPER BACK IS FRAGILE, THE ACTUAL BACK OF THE PHOTOGRAPH IS IS GREAT CONDITION AS IT WAS BEING PROTECTED BY THE PAPER. NO PIN HOLES, NO WATER STAINS, TONING PROBLEMS OR ANY OTHER ISSUES. ALL THIS TO BE AS CONDITION SPECIFIC & CONSCIOUS AS POSSIBLE BUT IN CASE WE MISSED SOMETHING, PLEASE USE THE OVERSIZED IMAGES AS AN ADDITIONAL CONDITION GUIDE. WHEN IN DOUBT, PLEASE ASK, WE ARE ALWAYS HAPPY TO CHAT MORE INFO ON THE PHOTOGRAPHER;M. I. Boris [Boris Majdrakoff] was born in Sofia, Bulgaria, and educated in the studio of the pioneer Balkan photographer and Bulgarian freedom fighter Toma Hitrov by Hitrov's widow, Elena Chernova. Boris eventually married their daughter Ivanka Hitrova, also a photographer.Sent by his father to Vienna in 1905 to study engineering, Boris took courses in painting instead. He secured work in Atelier Adele, the photographic studio of the Austrian Emperor Franz Joseph, and was eventually appointed studio manager. On a vacation to Sofia in 1912, the First Balkan War erupted. As a young male Bulgarian he was drafted and served in the First and Second Balkan Wars, as well as World War I. Because of his photographic abilities, he was assigned to military intelligence. After the cessation of hostilities, he discovered that his possessions in Vienna had been seized; he settled in Sofia, and worked out of the Hitrov Studio.In 1922, in pursuit of Ivanka Hitrova, and to evade retribution for shooting a man, he moved to New York. He married and set up a studio in an apartment over the Stork Club, adopting his commercial name, "M.I. Boris." He enjoyed immediate success and established a studio on W. 57th in the premises once occupied by photographer J.A. Foley. Boris worked for three years on special jobs for Paramount Studio, supplying his elaborately etched star portraits, but quit when pressured to move to the West Coast where Paramount relocated in late 1926. The New York Times contacted him in the late 1920s about replacing Victor Georg at its studios, but Boris preferred working independently. Throughout the 1920s, he expanded into Society portraiture as a supplement to his theatrical and movie star projects.In the late 1930s, his style grew less painterly and more "straight" as he established himself as a fixture in the New York scene. He became greatly active in the professional associations, particularly as an exhibition judge. He opened a branch of his studio in Washington, D.C. and took occasional students, such as Ralph Oggiano. Aside from his portraiture, he did photograms, abstract marbalized images, and painted on exposed photographic paper. These experimental works were for the delection of his family and photographic friends. He died on July 17, 1962 after falling into the elevator shaft at 697 Fifth Avenue, where his studio was located.An adherent of Jungenstil, the proto-modernist aesthetic that reigned in Austria before the War, Boris developed a mode of portrait photography with sinuous profiles and backgrounds aswirl with quasi-abstract graphic patterning. He brought the style to New York in 1923. His pictures bear strong affinities with those of Orval Hixon, Homer K. Peyton, and William Mortensen in the aggressive manipulation of the negative and the concern with creating a synthetic image of great allure. His vintage prints of the 1920s are among the rarest and most visually arresting of the portraitists of the inter-war yearsJust Some More Info… **Per E-Bay’s policy, signature confirmation is required for all purchases over $750. It is automatically added to your order by E-Bay at checkout We combine shipping whenever possible at no additional charge. If it fits in one package, we will NOT charge anything extra. Should you win multiple auctions kindly wait for us to send you a combined shipping invoice, if you are buying multiple buy it now items, please reach out ahead of your purchases so we can combine shipping as it may not be automatic through E-Bay’s system For our International buyers. 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Price: 699.95 USD

Location: Los Angeles, California

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