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Ruth Orkin: Women
Hardcover
$50.00
By Ruth Orkin (Photographer), Nadine Barth (Editor), Katharina Mouratidi (Editor), Ruth Orkin (Editor), Nadine Barth (Text by)
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Whether candid or posed, in black and white or color, Orkin's photographs of women reveal her consistently sympathetic eye
In 1951, her photograph American Girl in Italy--depicting a young woman on a street flanked by whistling men--made Ruth Orkin (1921-85) a household name. Now, a new facet of her work emerges through sensational never-before-seen negatives and slides. Women illustrates Orkin's devoted, humorous, witty and sensitive documentation of women's life in the 1940s and 1950s. She...