[Publicity photographs]: Blacaman

by (BLACAMAN, Aversa)

$250 · Offered by Between the Covers

Paris: Studio Loretto, [likely before 1949]. Unbound. Gelatin silver photograph. 7.75" x 10". Features 16 different images of the mesmerizing Blacaman, an Italian animal hypnotist and supposed "Indian" fakir, who appeared with W.C. Fields in *You Can't Cheat an Honest Man* (1939). He died in 1949. More

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