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BAKER, Josephine
Foto di scena del tour italiano mentre canta all'"Altro Mondo" di Rimini (foto di Mimmo Dabbrescia). 
Rimini, Agenzia Dabbrescia, ottobre 1969, , 1969
200.00 €
Pregliasco Libreria Antiquaria
(Torino, Italy)
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// ENGLISH DESCRIPTION //
B/W photograph (238 x 180 mm). Mimmo Dabbrescia, an acclaimed Italian photographer and photojournalist who portrayed high-profile artists, singers, musicians, and bands in the 1960s (including The Beatles, Joe Cocker, Clint Eastwood, Liz Taylor, Fellini, Mastroianni, Salvador Dalì, Guttuso and De Chirico) captured this image of the "Black Venus" Josephine Baker on stage during her 1969 Italian tour. A feminist and feminine icon, she was an innovator in art and active in the defense of rights and social justice. Her accomplishments and militancy were extraordinary. She was the first black woman to star in a major motion picture, the 1927 silent film Siren of the Tropics, but she also distinguished herself in the French Resistance during World War II, receiving the Medal of Resistance from the French Committee of National Liberation, the Croix de Guerre from the French Army, and Chevalier de la Légion d'Honneur from General Charles de Gaulle. She used her wide popularity in the fight against racism and for the emancipation of people of color, particularly by supporting the U.S. civil rights movement. When Martin Luther King delivered the "I Have a Dream" speech (1963) during the March on Washington, Josephine Baker, dressed in a French Air Force uniform, was at his side and would be the only woman to speak at the Lincoln Memorial. In 1968, Coretta Scott King offered her the unofficial leadership of the movement in the United States, which Baker declined, concerned for the well-being of her children. In 2021, she was the first black woman to receive one of France's highest honors, being inducted into the Panthéon in Paris. In good condition, on the back applied contemporary veil paper, typewritten in Italian, describing the photo.