Wednesday, November 29, 2017

#13 Ladies!

.....titled "Rankin" whoever that may be!

7 comments:

Patricia said...

Don't know about the 'Rankin', but I like this picture a lot! Kind of a Hollywood flair

Paul Gutheil said...

This looks to me like one of famed photographer Richard Avedon's "Dovima With Elephants".

Chic Silber said...


Extremely low cut but

not very revealing

Patricia said...

That's why she looks elegant rather than sleazy, Chic. Agreed?
Paul: Is "Dovima With Elephants" a series of photos? Who is Dovima?

Patricia said...

After thought: Or maybe she just put the dress on backward. Oops. I hate it when that happens.

Roger Smith said...

Dovima was the leading sensation among European fashion models. Here, she poses for the August 1955 Christian Dior collection. The Richard Avedon photos ran in a 14-page spread for the September issue of HARPER'S BAZAAR, and were shot with Bouglione's Cirque D'Hiver elephants, in Paris. One review noted the photos as a "dramatic juxtaposition of diaphanous elegance and brutish power." This photo series remains extensively covered on the net.

Glenn Sullivan said...

This is a re creation of the famous R.Avedon photograph. The elephants are from Whipsnade, UK. Azizah on the left and Mya on the right. Azizah has had 3 bull calves from breeding with Emmett, sired by Indy(ex Smokey Jones bull) at Syracuse. Mya unfortunately hasn't calved but several AI attempts occurred without success.