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Publication: Vanity Fair

Image Type: Photograph

Date: 1934

Description: Josephine Baker baker became an icon of the roaring twenties thanks to her role in La Revue Nègre at the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées in Paris in 1925, which made her an overnight star. Baker was asked to join the Folies Bergère, the famous Parisian dance hall known for its burlesques. George Hoyningen-Huene took a series of photographs of the beautiful dancer around 1927. This Condé Nast Archive.