Remembering Anna May Wong on her birthday 🎂
📷 Edward Steichen
Vanity Fair, April 1931
"Wong’s career contested, accommodated, and, most importantly, denaturalized various forms of orientalism."
- Shirley Jennifer Lim
Anna May Wong by Paul Tanqueray
vintage bromide print, 1929
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Anna May Wong by Otto Dyar, 1931
Anna May Wong by Francis Goodman, 1933
"She was an intelligent, business-savvy self-advocate who was very vocal about her displeasure with type-casting, & did everything she could to expand her career."
- Nathan Liu
Anna May Wong by Paul Tanqueray
whole-plate glass negative, 1933
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One of my favourite Anna May Wong portraits.
This 1938 shot of Anna May Wong by George Hurrell wouldn't have been sent off to Photoplay or Movie Mirror. Another wonderful portrait.
Otto Dyar photographing Anna May Wong in 1932. That was the year she made Shanghai Express at Paramount with Marlene Dietrich.
Marlene Dietrich, Anna May Wong & Leni Riefenstahl at a Berlin ball
📷 Alfred Eisenstaedt, 1935
Another Alfred Eisenstaedt shot of Marlene Dietrich, Anna May Wong, Leni Riefenstahl in Berlin, 1935
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