( Katherine Dunham Dance Company ), Louis Armstrong , the Francini-Pontier duo , American boxer Archie Moore , George Samuel " Sammy " Davis , Jr … There are also photographs of Rita with artists and foreign personalities visiting Buenos Aires , like Nicolas Guillen , The Harlem Globetrotters , and Mary Katherine Dunham . According to the photographer Amateurs : Photos occasionally taken by anyone in any circumstance for ad hoc reasons . They form about 30 % of the corpus and generally have acceptable quality . Professionals : Taken by photographers in studio or in family or scenic contexts , for example , during the shooting of her films and or in her national and international tours . They are about 70 % of the corpus and its quality is excellent . This includes photographs of her elders , who are the oldest in the collection . Identified photographers : Rita was portrayed by four studios in Buenos Aires : A . Castro , Annemarie Heinrich , Henry and Olga Kegahl Maša ( wife of Kegahl ). There are also works done by casual photographers during her performances : M . Diaz M . and David ( both from Santiago de Chile ), Luisito and Felix , as well as some given by colleagues like the Afro-Argentinian musician and jazz composer Oscar Aleman , taken by Sivul Wilenski . Some photos of her relatives were made by Leidi and ROVIDA ( Montevideo ), José Stanchina , Andrade , Maitos , Erivan and Universal ( the last three from Mar del Plata ). In most cases the authorship was easily determined since the photos are signed or stamped in the front or in the back . A few photographers were also identified by Rita . Unidentified photographers : Many photographs taken by professionals are not signed and the authors could not be identified , above all in the casual photographers of their performances
( including plays and films ) and of her participation in events . It happens also in the cases of photographs of their elders taken in studio or in natural setting . Five case studies For the purpose of the research I chose five pieces : two in family context , two of the career . and one imaginary reconstruction of a lost photograph .
Photo 1 . Taken by Leidi and ROVIDA in studio ( Montevideo , 1875 ). It is a copy in albumen paper cut with scissors and pasted on a rigid cardboard holder in satin with blue edges . It is in Victoria format ( 112 x 75 mm ), something not very common according to a personal communication of Abel Alexander . The photo itself does not occupy the entire space of the albumen paper , but a rectangle of 104 x 70 mm , with its top in semicircular arch . On the back Rita wrote with pen " July ". A blurred oval stamp in blue ink reads thus : 21 Calle del Cerro 21 : Te [...] gran [...]: Montevideo . It is the full-length portrait of the Afro-Argentine sailor Julio Cabot , the uncle of Rita ’ s mother . In the cap you can barely read the ship ' s name : [ ALM ] IRANTE [...]. The Afro- Argentinian newspaper La Broma reported he died in Buenos Aires and his wake was held on August 21 , 1882 . During a personal interview with Rita on September 3 , 2006 , in Buenos Aires , she said that Cabot told stories about " the disastrous war of Paraguay , which they had to lose because they didn ’ t know the jungle and the heat was exasperating ". The sailor ' s eyes were retouched by the photographer and the year was set approximately by Alexander , who argues that the decoration with rocks in papier maché was some kind of European innovation that the photographic studios in River Plate did not adopt before 1875 .
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