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Famous Black and White Photography – People Now Buy It Who Never Thought They Could
Famous black and white photography prints go for exorbetent amounts of money in the art market. Have you regretted not knowing about an artist’s work when it was cheap enough for you to invest in before it started going up and up like a red hot stock tip? Well here’s your chance. The black and white photographs of Alfred Cheney Johnston, a contemporary of Alfred Stieglitzand Edward Steichen are just beginning to gather momentum.
Alfred Cheney Johnston was the famed photographer of the Ziegfeld Follies. During the years he worked for Flo Ziegfeld, Cheney photographed the hot celebrities of the day such as - Ann Pennington – famous for her shake and quiver dance, Eddie Cantor, and of course Flo Ziegfeld’s wife, Billie Burke, best known for her role has the good witch in the “Wizard of Oz”. Not to mention all the beautiful stars of the Ziegfeld Follies.
ACJ shot thousands of stunning fine art black and white photographs. They’re stunning because of his fine art training. ACJ started out as an art student in New York City and was a protege of artist Charles Dana Gibson who created the “Gibson Girl” modeled after his wife. While Cheney was still in art school the medium of photography was gaining ground as an acceptable art medium. It was Gibson who spiked Alfred Cheney Johnston’s interest in photography in the first place and encouraged him to experiment with it as a new way to express his artistry. Thankfully Cheney listened.
In his hay-day of the Roaring 20′s Alfred Cheney Johnston was in enormous demand. Not only was he recording the images of all the major stars and many of the chorus girls of the Ziegfeld Follies, he was photographing the high society of Fifth Avenue in Manhattan. Soon the California film industry came calling wanting to hire ACJ to shoot stills of their celibritys . At one time Johnston was as famous as many of the people he photographed.
The Stock Market Crash of 1929 raked havov all across the United States. With money tight, especially for such luxuries as going to Broadway musicals, Flo Ziegfeld was forced to close the Follies. Out of a lucrative job, Alfred Cheney Johnston and his wife retreated to an old Connecticut farm where he lived out his life in obscurity.
Upon Cheney’s death thousands of his photographs were discovered in his studio. An old turkey coop was found to be packed with all his glass negatives. The negatives were hauled off to the local dump. The black and white photographs were inherited by a close friend. In due course the whole collection was sold to a photo dealer.
Thanks to the the advent of online auctions like Ebay, Alfred Cheney Johnston’s stunning black and white prints started being offered for sale on the auction site. Slowly, Alfred Cheney Johnston’s work has been regaining its once famous status.
About the Author
Ava Land is a black and white photography enthusiast. To learn more about collecting the famous black and white photography of Alfred Cheney Johnston at affordable prices visit this link http://alfredcheneyjohnston.com/Photography.htm
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