{"id":31662,"date":"2017-07-05T08:04:53","date_gmt":"2017-07-05T15:04:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/?p=31662"},"modified":"2017-07-05T08:05:29","modified_gmt":"2017-07-05T15:05:29","slug":"manhattan-1949","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/2017\/07\/05\/manhattan-1949\/","title":{"rendered":"Manhattan, 1949"},"content":{"rendered":"

The one and only Parky.<\/i><\/p>\n

Looking at the images on my walls, there are two by Norman Parkinson, both of his future wife and one of the first ‘supermodels’, Wenda Rogerson<\/a>. There’s another eye catching one in his archive which is perfection, this time of Lisa Fonssagrives, a contemporary of Wenda’s who went on to become Mrs. Irving Penn, and it has everything you could possibly want – the beautiful model, the wonderful clothes and that magical blur of the New York cab.<\/p>\n

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The narrative reads: “Oxford flannel finger-tip coat: Newest of coat-lengths in one of the newest of not-blacks. Worumbo flannel with rolling velvet collar; skirt, same flannel, paler. Tilted hat. All designed by Hattie Carnegie.’ Swedish-born model Lisa Fonssagrives photographed on Park Avenue for American Vogue, 1949.”<\/i><\/p>\n

You can find the Parkinson archive here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The one and only Parky. Looking at the images on my walls, there are two by Norman Parkinson, both of his future wife and one of the first ‘supermodels’, Wenda Rogerson. There’s another eye catching one in his archive which is perfection, this time of Lisa Fonssagrives, a contemporary of Wenda’s who went on to … Continue reading Manhattan, 1949<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31662","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photographers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31662","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31662"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31662\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31665,"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31662\/revisions\/31665"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}