“I just work in my own way … I don’t imitate the methods of anyone else. And I break all the laws of photography whenever I see fit…why insist on having a shadow here and a high light there, simply because books have been written saying that you must? I suit everything to the personality of the person whose picture I’m making.”
alfred cheney johnston photographed the ziegfeld girls (decked out erté designs) from 1916 through the 1920s.
((more on ziegfeld and johnston here.))
