{"id":18502,"date":"2023-05-19T12:39:50","date_gmt":"2023-05-19T16:39:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/?page_id=18502"},"modified":"2023-06-06T11:38:04","modified_gmt":"2023-06-06T15:38:04","slug":"eileen-darby-biography","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/exhibitions\/eileen-darby-biography\/","title":{"rendered":"Eileen Darby Biography"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-black-color has-text-color\">Eileen Darby (American, 1916-2004)<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Darby was a photographer of Broadway productions. She studied biology at Marylhurst University near Portland, Oregon but left for New York to pursue photography. She got a job working at Pix in the 1930s where from she was sent theatrical assignments. In 1941, Darby founded her own agency, Graphic House. All told, she photographed over 500 Broadway shows. Darby is known for her candid photographic style, bringing warmth and humanity to the burgeoning stars.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"707\" height=\"900\" data-id=\"17649\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/files\/2023\/03\/Image086-copy-707x900.webp\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-17649\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/files\/2023\/03\/Image086-copy-707x900.webp 707w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/files\/2023\/03\/Image086-copy-236x300.webp 236w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/files\/2023\/03\/Image086-copy-768x978.webp 768w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/files\/2023\/03\/Image086-copy-1206x1536.webp 1206w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/files\/2023\/03\/Image086-copy-493x628.jpg 493w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/files\/2023\/03\/Image086-copy.webp 1507w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 707px) 100vw, 707px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Eileen Darby,<em> Lee J. Cobb in the play \u201cDeath of a Salesman\u201d<\/em>, 1948, silver gelatin print, 14 x 11 in., Gift of Robert Flynn Johnson, 2021.11.9<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"10\" height=\"10\" data-id=\"14895\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/files\/2021\/01\/blank-image-2.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-14895\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"10\" height=\"10\" data-id=\"14895\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/files\/2021\/01\/blank-image-2.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-14895\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eileen Darby (American, 1916-2004) Darby was a photographer of Broadway productions. She&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1626,"featured_media":0,"parent":1152,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_hide_ai_chatbot":false,"_ai_chatbot_style":"","associated_faculty":[],"_Page_Specific_Css":"","_bates_restrict_mod":false,"_dimp_site_id":"","_dimp_override_contact":false,"_table_of_contents_display":false,"_table_of_contents_location":"","_table_of_contents_disableSticky":false,"_is_featured":false,"footnotes":"","_bates_seo_meta_description":"","_bates_seo_block_robots":false,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_id":0,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_twitter_id":0,"_bates_seo_share_title":"","_bates_seo_canonical_overwrite":"","_bates_seo_twitter_template":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-18502","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/18502","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1626"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18502"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/18502\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19177,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/18502\/revisions\/19177"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1152"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}