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
https://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.

Proofide, that's a heck of a photo!

Derailleurs were a French thing. They were popular in France earlier than in other countries, particularly the UK and US. I don't think the internally geared hub (IGH) ever caught on in France. Neither did coaster brakes.

I think the lack of je ne sais quoi is because this subject actually rode her bike. Those models in those pictures often look to me like they don't even know how, so their poses are unrealistic, to say the least.

Those shoes are amazing, but I know very little about fashion. I didn't know such shoes existed so long ago. I thought they were a 1970's invention. It just goes to show, everything old is made new again.

There's a bike in that OP?


*oh, now I see it*