MAX HOLDEN PORTRAIT 8X10 B&W (1920s) / Archival Magician Photo Reprint

Description

“MAX HOLDEN PORTRAIT” 8
”x10
”(1920s)
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BLACK & WHITE ARCHIVAL MODERN PHOTOGRAPHIC REPRINT
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Modern reprint of black and white portait of Max Holden, circa 1920s. Gorgeous saturated print just made for framing.
Printed on archival 73 lb. glossy photographic stock.
This is
a modern photographic reprint
from a high quality original.
When evaluating the quality of the photo, please keep in mind that some of the original photos were taken over 100 years ago.
ABOUT HARRY MAX HOLDEN
Max Holden
(August 20, 1884 - July 3, 1949) was born William Holden Maxwell in Boston, Massachusetts (although some references claim Glasgow, Scotland). He
spent much of his time as a boy traveling between New England and Scotland, accompanying his parents on junkets. He began as assistant to
David Devant
in 1901.
He enjoyed success in England before coming back to the United States to work in Vaudeville. He worked with wife as the team "Holden & Graham". His major act was a colored-light Shadowgraphy.
He also worked with Vivian Le Clair around 1910 in Massachusetts (their photo can be seen in the Conjuring Arts' exhibit "The Many Faces of Magic”.
In 1914 Mr. Holden invented and patented a colored smoke picture trick called shadowgraphs, with which he toured Europe, Africa, Australia, the Par East and the United States as a headliner.
Holden spent his later life as a magic dealer, opening Max Holden Magic Shop in New York city (with branches in Boston and Philadelphia). He opened his first store in 1929 with support from Lewis Davenport.
He was a member of the London Inner Magic Circle, the Society of American Magicians, the International Brotherhood of Magicians and the Magician's Guild .
Holden wrote a column which ran for several years in the Sphinx titled "Trouping Around In Magic”.
Holden created the very popular Cross Cut Force. He also secretly helped Camel cigarettes with their series of magazine ads that explained magic tricks in 1933 under the tag line "It's Fun to Be Fooled, but It's More Fun to Know". It caused quite a scandal in the magic community, but no one found out Holden's involvement until after his death.
Special thanks to Magicpedia for some of the biographical information.
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