View from Stage, Antique Cyanotype Photo of Theatre Interior with Stars and Stripes Everywhere hats both in America and abroad

both in America and abroad

A lovely example

but also of persistent tendencies

E and dated 1931 on reverse

with hinges firmly attached

View from Stage, Antique Cyanotype Photo of Theatre Interior with Stars and Stripes Everywhere hats both in America and abroadQuite an unusual one, a late 19th very early 20th c. cyanotype, which I know came out of a Los Angeles estate. I've recently been looking at old photographs of empty spaces sets like a rare photobooth photo absent a person, which I really coveted and this feels akin to me; a view from the stage of an empty theatre. All about stage setting, and anticipation, and absence, too. With these elaborately draped stars and stripes banners everywhere, and