A Mexican

Sarah Choate Sears|Adolf de Meyer

1905 · Platinum print · Photographs

With his brow arched beneath a tilted hat and hand elegantly grasping a stark white scarf, de Meyer dons a mysterious alter ego. Like de Meyer, Sears was involved with the two major groups devoted to art photography: the Photo-Secession and the Linked Ring Brotherhood. The two artists may have met through a mutual friend, the photographer F. Holland Day, who included their work in his exhibition “New School of American Photography,” on view in London in 1900 and Paris the following year. The title for this portrait follows a Photo-Secession tradition of withholding the sitter’s name when exhibiting publicly.

Artist

Sarah Choate Sears|Adolf de Meyer

Date

1905

Medium

Platinum print

Department

Photographs

Credit line

Alfred Stieglitz Collection, 1933