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Photographer, gatecrasher, New Wave pioneer: the 'large life' of Ruth Orkin

Photographer, gatecrasher, New Wave pioneer: the large life of Ruth Orkin
From sneaking into balls with Dior and Dali, to installing floodlights in her flat, Ruth Orkin would stop at nothing to get the perfect shot
24 January 2021 • 12:00pm
I felt like Beatrice walking through the streets of Florence Ruth Orkin s American Girl in Italy, 1951
Credit: Bonhams
On September 3 1951, Count Carlos de Beistegui held a costumed ball at the Palazzo Labia in Venice. A swarm of gondolas brought a thousand guests – among them, Christian Dior, Salvador Dalí and the Duchess of Devonshire – who arrived in a spume of powder, feathers, boned silk and gold leaf, and proceeded to cut loose until six in the morning. ....

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Pioneering photographer Ruth Orkin celebrated in Bonhams New York Photographs sale

Pioneering photographer Ruth Orkin celebrated in Bonhams New York Photographs sale
American Girl (Jinx Allen) in Florence, Italy, 1951, gelatin silver print. Photo: Bonhams.
NEW YORK, NY
.- In 1951, the young American photographer Ruth Orkin was sent from New York to Israel, on assignment for LIFE magazine. From there she travelled to Italy, where she met Ninalee Craig, known at the time as Jinx Allen, a fellow American who was also travelling alone. It was a photograph of Jinx, being starred at as she passed through a group of men, which was to become Orkins most recognizable image, An American Girl in Italy. Orkin included the photograph as part of a series, later published in Cosmopolitan magazine, entitled Dont be Afraid to Travel Alone. ....

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