Natalie Dykstra meticulously combs through archival material ... A member of the “international set” in fin-de-siècle Europe, Baron Adolf de Meyer (1868–1946) was also a pioneering art, portrait, and ...

NEW YORK — Points for style matter in a show about style, and “Quicksilver Brilliance: Adolf de Meyer Photographs” is nothing if not a show about style. It runs at the Metropolitan Museum of ...

Adolf de Meyer, who pioneered celebrity photography with stars like Josephine Baker and Vaslav Nijinsky, has the hallmarks of a YouTube or Instagram influencer: He took countless pictures ...

Baron Adolf de Meyer is a Paris-born, German-Jewish and Scottish photographer whose early 20th century celebrity portraits included the likes of Josephine Baker, John Barrymore and Queen Mary ...

There is nothing modern, much less contemporary, about the photographs of Baron de Meyer, which is part of their appeal. His fashion studies and society portraits, made over several decades at the ...