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[Anne Sexton, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing slightly right] – Vintage Photo Print

[Anne Sexton, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing slightly right], [1967] — historic photograph
[Anne Sexton, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing slightly right], [1967]. Historic photograph from the Historic Print Archive collection.

(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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This rare historic photograph captures [Anne Sexton, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing slightly right] in remarkable detail. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.

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Sexton is shown in a close head-and-shoulders view, turned slightly to the right, a composed study that suits the poet who became known for her candid, confessional verse. Born in 1928, she began publishing in the late 1950s with *To Bedlam and Part Way Back*, and her later collections, including *Live or Die*, brought her the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1967, the year this portrait was made. Publicity and press photographs from that period often served to introduce writers to newspaper readers, and this one reflects how a poet of her profile was presented to the public at the height of her fame.

Created / published[1967]
Medium1 photographic print.
GenrePortrait photographs 1960-1970.Publicity photographs 1960-1970.Photographic prints 1960-1970.
NotesNew York World-Telegram & Sun Collection.
SubjectsSexton, Anne,--1928-1974.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan3,292 × 4,096 px · prints to 11 × 14 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-186118

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