Florence Vandamm

Florence Vandamm (1883–1966) was a British photographer known for her portraiture for Broadway theatre. During her five-decade career, Vandamm and her studio photographed over 2,000 productions. She was trained in painting at the Royal Academy of Arts, ran her own studio, and was elected a fellow of the Royal Photographic Society of Great Britain before moving to the United States in 1923. She lived in New York where she was the official photographer for the Theatre Guild. Her photography was the subject of the 2013 exhibition ''Poet of Light: Florence Vandamm & the Vandamm Studio'' at the New York Public Library. Provided by Wikipedia