“You are an ocean. I dreamed once for a moment that I was the crest of your wave.”
— Erika Mitterer, tr. by Beth Bjorklund, from Correspondence in Verse; “Third Letter,”
Alicia Markova in ‘Les Sylphides.’
Gelatin silver prints (1944) by
Carl Van Vechten (American, 1880 – 1964
).Images and text courtesy Philadelphia Museum of Art.
Phantasmagoria 