Josephine 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 this series of photographs of the beautiful dancer around 1927 for Vanity Fair.
