1914), whom he hired as his chauffeur and later adopted as his son. The latter went by the name Baron Ernest Frohlich de Meyer. Career From 1898 to 1913, de Meyer lived in fashionable Cadogan Gardens, London. And from 1903 to 1907, his work was published in Alfred Stieglitz's quarterly Camera Work. Cecil Beaton dubbed him "the Debussy of photography". In 1912, he photographed Nijinsky in Paris. On the outbreak of World War I, the de Meyers, who in 1916 took the new names of Mahrah and Gayne, on the advice of an astrologer, moved to New York City, where he became a photographer for Vogue from 1913 to 1921, and for Vanity Fair. In 1922, de Meyer accepted an offer to become the chief photographer and Parisian fashion correspondent for Harper's Bazaar in Paris, spending the next 12 years there. During the World War I years, de Meyer brought to Vogue an Edwardian style featuring a rebellion against the rationality of the second industrial revolution and a fashion movement that was characterized as a queer counterculture. On the eve of World War II in 1938, de Meyer returned to the United States. Today, few of his prints survive, most having been destroyed during World War II but some 52 photographs of Olga, packed by his adopted son Ernest, came to light in 1988 and were published in 1992. He died in Los Angeles on the anniversary of his wife's death, 6 January 1946, he being registered as 'Gayne Adolphus Demeyer, writer (retired), and was buried at Forest Lawn Memorial Park (Glendale), Glendale, Los Angeles County, California. Gallery Sources Royal Mistresses and Bastards (2007) page 358 re Blanche, Duchess of Carraciolo and Olga de Meyer. Baron Adolf de Meyer Adolf de Meyer References External links Paris Collections Seen By A Connoisseur by Adolph de Meyer: Harper's Bazaar, November, 1922 American people of Scottish descent 1868 births 1946 deaths Fashion photographers American portrait photographers Ballet photographers Gay photographers German LGBT photographers American LGBT photographers German gay artists American gay artists LGBT people from California LGBT people from New York (state) Artists from Paris Vanity Fair (magazine) people Vogue (magazine) people Photographers from Saxony 20th-century American photographers