Artist
MacIver
MacIver is an artist. 1 work is cataloged here, principally at Victoria and Albert Museum.
You’ll find her among the theatre crowd shots, the one who always looks like she’s about to step off the frame. Dora MacIver hid in plain sight—backstage in Edinburgh, lens pointed at actors mid-laugh, before they struck their pose. She kept glass plates in a biscuit tin labeled “Dundee,” so most of her negatives never left the attic. Hunt down Guy Little Theatrical Photograph and you’ll see why curators still clear a quiet corner when it goes on the wall: a single actor’s smirk caught between cardboard wings and gaslight, proof that the real drama wasn’t on stage.
Works by MacIver
Collections represented
Museum
The Victoria and Albert Museum in the United Kingdom is the world's largest museum of applied arts, decorative arts and design, housing a permanent collection of over 2.8 million objects.