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Originally Posted by Kawika
I've shown this photo probably too many times already but it's a Matty photo thread and this is a Matty photo so what the heck. I originally was led to believe that the image was dated 1905 but subsequently saw that it was used in the 1903 NYG Sorting Life composite so Matty would have been 23 years old. Photographer was Benjamin Falk, a prominent NYC photographer in those days, the bulk of whose subjects were theatrical people.
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Falk was one of the early masters, no doubt about it. Right there with Horner, Hall, Van Oeyen & Conlon.
BTW Dave... your Matty is my favorite image of him and I'll never get tired of looking at it.