Originally Posted by
noglider
Hardly! I keep going back to those pictures.
Erasergirl says women's legs don't do anything for her. Sure, I understand. I'm more of a breast man than a leg man, but those pictures are just amazing. I can't even put my finger on it.
Nina Leen was a good photographer whom people hardly remember.
I have several of her books. She was Life's 1st woman photographer.
Oddly she doesn't have a wikipedia entry...i will have to fix that.
Even her NYT Obit is slight
http://www.nytimes.com/1995/01/05/ob...tographer.html
this is her most famous photograph "The Irascibles"
In May 1950, a group of New York painters wrote a letter to the Metropolitan Museum of Art protesting its anti-abstract bias in the selection of painters for the exhibit "American Painting Today 1950." The letter appeared in the N.Y. Times and the Herald Tribune. A photo of the group taken Nov. 24, 1950 appeared in Life's Jan. 15, 1951 issue, captioned "Irascible Group of Advanced Artists Led Fight Against Show."
Pictured from left rear: Willem De Kooning, Adolph Gottlieb, Ad Reinhardt, Hedda Sterne; next row: Richard Pousette-Dart, William Baziotes, Jimmy Ernst, Jackson Pollock, James Brooks, Clyfford Still, Robert Motherwell, Bradley Walker Tomlin; foreground: Theodoros Stamos, Barnett Newman and Mark Rothko. Missing from photo: Weldon Kees, Fritz Bultman and Hans Hofmann. Photographed by Nina Leen for Time/Life, 1951.