A Jack Mitchell Photograph, 1966, of the late Angela Lansbury in Full Costume for Her Starring Role on Broadway as 'Mame’

Before describing anything about this magnificent shot of Angela Landsbury, some background.  I came across this photographer as I was looking online through 1st Dibs, at photographs of Angela, who had recently passed.   What was there was a just a handfulf of Jack Mitchell photographs, as when I made my way to jackmitchell.com, I was completely floored with the photography archives to be found there.   I contacted the executive director of the archives, Craig Highberger, who was also a great friend of the photographer asking -- no begging -- him to come to Modernism Week and give a presentation.  He couldn't schedule it for 2023 but will get on his calendar for 2024.  I told him about the stunning Angela Landsbury photograph, asking him perhaps if he might donate a photograph to our online auction, well -- here it is.  It is beautiful, don't let this get away from you.  Bid high, bid often and own it!

He also sent a couple of boxes of cards (one box included various photos Jack had taken of Warhol Superstars, and the other box has one of the most beautiful photographs of Patti LaPone I've seen) and a couple of dvds of a documentary he completed on Jack Mitchell.  So check out jackmitchell.com and plan to attend a Jack Mitchell presentation during MW 2024.  

Photographer - Jack Mitchell (1925 -2013, American) 

Creation Year -1966.  Silver Gelatin Print.  Excellent Condition 

Dimensions  h/ 10 in (25.4 cm) w/ 8 in (20.32 cm)

Will aslo include a DVD of the documentary and the two boxes of photo cards sent.  

8 x 10" vintage silver gelatin photograph of Angela Lansbury in full costume for her starring role on Broadway in the musical 'Mame', 1966.   This is a print that was published by a newspaper or magazine which they used to scan and then returned to Jack. The rear usually has notations or stamps that authenticate its vintage. Comes directly from the Jack Mitchell Archives with a certificate of authenticity. Jack Mitchell, (1925-2013) with a bulging photographic portfolio of actors, writers, painters, musicians and especially dancers, describes a pictorial history of the arts in the late 20th century. Mr. Mitchell, who took hundreds of pictures for The New York Times, was both a portraitist and a capturer of complex motion.

An expert in lighting, he worked mostly, though not entirely, in black and white, and he was known — by his subjects, by the magazine and newspaper editors he worked for, and by critics — as someone who could make a photograph reveal character.

Jack Mitchell was the official photographer for the American Ballet Theater, and he chronicled the work of the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater for more than thirty years. When he retired in 1995, he had fulfilled more than 5,000 assignments in black and white, and nearly a thousand in color. He photographed more than 160 covers for Dance magazine, and his photos have appeared in Time, Life, Newsweek, Rolling Stone, Vanity Fair, Vogue and many other publications.

Mitchell’s photographs are in the collections of the National Portrait Gallery, the Museum of African American History and Culture, and the Smithsonian Archives of American Art, among others. The 2019 USPS Black Heritage postage stamp honoring American performer Gregory Hines was made from a Jack Mitchell photograph, and a Jack Mitchell photograph of Audre Lorde was transformed into a huge glass mosaic as a permanent installation at the 167th Street MTA subway station in NYC.  jackmitchell.com

• Name : Jack Mitchel Archives