De Meyer was born in Paris 1868 and has been famed for his photographic portraiture within the early 20th century, He is also known officially as the first fashion photographer for American Vogue since 1913.
Even though he was born in Paris, De Meyer was educated in Dresden, Germany.
De Meyer joined the Royal Photographic Society in 1893 and then moved to London in 1895, and since 1898 he lived in fashionable Cadogan Gardens until 1913 within this time he had his work published in the Alfred Stieglitz's Quarterly camera work between 1903 to 1907.
In the year 1912 De Meyer photographed Nijinsky in paris and was then dubbed the Debussy of photography by Cecil Beaton.
During the outbreak of World War I The De Meyers (known as Mahrah and Gayne since 1916) moved countries to the United States in New York City, where Adolph de Meyer became a photographer for the American magazine Vogue in 1913-1921 and then Vanity Fair in 1922, However he spent the next sixteen years in Paris as the chief of Harpers Bazaar.
Adolph De Meyer returned to the United States on the eve of World War II in 1938
Few of De Meyers prints survived the war so there is limited access to his work today but 52 images he had taken of his wife were packed by his adopted son Earnest came to light in 1988 and were then published in 1992.
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