Candid Portrait Of Josephine Baker is a photograph by Globe Photos which was uploaded on April 19th, 2023.
Candid Portrait Of Josephine Baker
This black and white capture features close-up portrait of smiling Josephine Baker looking away at an event held at Folies Bergere, Paris,... more
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Candid Portrait Of Josephine Baker
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Globe Photos
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This black and white capture features close-up portrait of smiling Josephine Baker looking away at an event held at Folies Bergere, Paris, France.
Josephine Baker was an American-born French dancer, singer and actress. Her career was centered primarily in Europe, mostly in her adopted France. She was the first black woman to star in a major motion picture, the 1927 silent film Siren of the Tropics, directed by Mario Nalpas and Henri Etievant. During her early career, Baker was among the most celebrated performers to headline the revues of the Folies Bergère in Paris. Her performance in the revue Un vent de folie in 1927 caused a sensation in the city. Her costume, consisting of only a short skirt of artificial bananas and a beaded necklace, became an iconic image and a symbol both of the Jazz Age and the Roaring Twenties. Baker was celebrated by artists and intellectuals of the era, who variously dubbed her the "Black Venus", the "Black Pearl", the "Bronze Venus", and the "Creole Goddess". Born in St. Louis, Missouri, she renounced her U.S. citizenship and became a French national after her marriage to French industrialist Jean Lion in 1937. She raised her children in France.
She aided the French Resistance during World War II. After the war, she was awarded the Resistance Medal by the French Committee of National Liberation, the Croix de Guerre by the French military, and was named a Chevalier of the Legion d'honneur by General Charles de Gaulle. Baker sang: "I have two loves, my country and Paris."
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