FLORENCE VANDAMM
(1883-1966)
Florence Vandamm was born Florence Van Damm in 1883 in London. She opened a photographic studio there in 1908, as well as working as a painter. She married American photographer George R. Thomas in 1918 and became a Royal Photographic Society fellow the following year. The couple began a photographic partnership; where she focused on studio portraits of actors, he specialised in on-stage photographs. They moved to New York in 1923 and photographed for Vogue, Vanity Fair and the Theater Guild.
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The Vandamm studio closed in 1962 and its surviving prints and artefacts were transferred to the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts. A major exhibition ‘Pinoeering Poet of Light: Photographer Florence Vandamm & the Vandamm Studio’ was created by curator Barbara Cohen-Stratyner in 2013.
Dancer Vera Le Fleming (b. 1901).
Gertrude Lawrence in 'Lady in the Dark' in 1941. Vandamm at Vandamm Studio, 130 West 57th Street in New York
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Madge Titheradge (1887-1961), at the time of appearing in ‘The Patriot,' which opened at the Majestic Theatre on January 19th, 1928.
Dancer Vera Le Fleming (b. 1901).