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Adolf de Meyer, who pioneered celebrity photography with stars like Josephine Baker and Vaslav Nijinsky, has the hallmarks of a YouTube or Instagram influencer: He took countless pictures, dyed his hair blue, was in thrall to his astrologer and always seemed up for a party.

Forty works from de Meyer’s career, which ran from the 1890s through the 1930s, will go on exhibit starting Dec. 4 at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.