[Shadow Portrait of Meyerhold Directing, Moscow]

Iakov Toltchan

ca. 1927 · Gelatin silver print · Photographs

The Russian avant-garde theater director Vsevolod E. Meyerhold believed it essential to have a photographic record of his productions, which otherwise were ephemeral. Fernand Crommelynk's Magnanimous Cuckold, staged in 1922, was the first to be so documented. Toltchan, a photographer and cameraman, portrayed the legendary director in action when the two worked together in Moscow in the 1920s.

Artist

Iakov Toltchan

Date

ca. 1927

Medium

Gelatin silver print

Department

Photographs

Credit line

Gilman Collection, Gift of The Howard Gilman Foundation, 2005