Fashion by Talmack, Molly Parnis and Herbert Sondheim
Photograph
July 1959 (made)
July 1959 (made)
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B&W photo, three female models on city rooftop holding mirrors.
Object details
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| Title | Fashion by Talmack, Molly Parnis and Herbert Sondheim (generic title) |
| Materials and techniques | Gelatin-silver print |
| Brief description | Klein William, Fashion shoot, 1959. Fashion by Talmack, Molly Parnis and Herbert Sondheim, American Vogue, July 1959 (Alternative title: Evelyn & Isabella & Nena & Mirrors, New York) |
| Physical description | B&W photo, three female models on city rooftop holding mirrors. |
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| Gallery label | ‘Selling Dreams: One Hundred Years of Fashion Photography’, 2014. Label text:
William Klein (b.1928)
Evelyn Tripp, Isabella Albonico and Nena von Schlebrugge wear fashions by Talmack, Mollie Parnis and Herbert Sondheim, New York
American Vogue, 1959
Three models, cleverly multiplied through the positioning of mirrors, pose against the towering New York skyline. Klein had been a student of the painter Fernand Léger, who advised him to ‘get out of the studio into the streets ... to be monumental.’ Klein often used wide-angle and telephoto lenses to create images that captured the dynamism of the modern metropolis.
Gelatin silver print
Given by William Klein
Museum no. PH.708-1987
(07 03 2014) |
| Credit line | Copyright William Klein / Conde Nast |
| Object history | In just three months William Klein produced one of the most renowned books of the 1950's, Life is Good and Good for You in New York: Trance - Witness - Revels. This was intended, he said, "as a monster big-city Daily Bugle with its scandals and scoops that you’d find blowing in the streets at three in the morning." Klein had been a student of the painter Fernand Leger, whose advice had been to "get out of the studio into the streets...to be monumental." Klein’s work is monumental street art, far removed from the mainstream documentary style of the fifties. In 1958 Klein turned to film-making, only returning to photography in 1980. |
| Production | Fashion by Talmack, Molly Parnis and Herbert Sondheim, American Vogue, July 1959 |
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| Accession number | PH.708-1987 |
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| Record created | July 28, 2003 |
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