Sujets :
Kelty, Edward J. [photographe]
Arts du cirque - Photographies
Artistes de cirque - Photographies
Artistes de cirque - États-Unis
Histoire des arts du cirque - États-Unis
Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus [compagnie de cirque]
Clyde Beatty-Cole Bros. Circus [compagnie de cirque]

Dépouillement du document :
Edward J. Kelty and century flashlight photographers
The magic cavalcade : arcane marvels of the big top
The sideshows of Coney Island, 42nd Street, and Harlem
The spectacular group shots
Solo, independent and group performers
The congress of freaks
The support staff : they made the circus run
Exterior and interior views
Notes on the photographs

Résumé :
Edward J. Kelty's circus pictures, taken from the mid-1920s to the 1940s, consist of group portraits of clowns, sideshow attractions, bands, elephants, menageries, aerialists, equestrians, tractor and train crews, candy butchers and even everybody in the Ringling-Barnum cookhouse tent on July 1935. He also lensed stars such as lion-tamer Clyde Beatty, teenage tightrope walker Harold Barnes, and Hugo Zacchini, Human Projectile, and interior and exterior panoramas of circuses pitched in Tarrytown, Terre Haute, and other fair burghs. Kelty used a specially made "banquet" camera that produced 12-by-20-inch images. Reproduced here at about two-fifths that size and as originally tinted when appropriate, they are scrumptious, sometimes outrageous. [editore resume]

Collection : Bibliothèque de l'École nationale de cirque

Localisation : Bibliothèque (grands formats)

Cote : 791.309 73 K2998s 2002

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