[Woodbury's Facial Soap : A skin you love to touch] / Margaret Watkins, 1924. – Vintage Wall Art
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(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 [Woodbury's Facial Soap : A skin you love to touch] / Margaret Watkins, 1924. in remarkable detail. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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[Woodbury's Facial Soap : A skin you love to touch] / Margaret Watkins, 1924.
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This still life sells a facial soap with a carefully arranged tabletop rather than a face, which sets it apart from the many portrait-style ads of its day. Woodbury's was a widely advertised complexion soap in the 1920s, and its slogan promised a skin worth touching. Margaret Watkins, who trained with the Clarence H. White School of Photography, brought pictorialist polish to commercial work, and this print shows the shift from soft, painterly effects toward the crisp, precise forms that marked modernist photography later in the decade.
| Created / published | 1924 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print : palladium ; 6 1/8 x 8 in. |
| Genre | Palladium prints 1920-1930.Still life photographs 1920-1930. |
| Notes | Margaret Watkins was affiliated with the Clarence H. White School of Photography. Physical description data provided by donor. Published in: Pictorialism into modernism: the Clarence H. White School of Photography / edited by Marianne Fulton; with text by Bonnie Yochelson and Kathleen A. Erwin, 1996, p. 158. Forms part of: Warren and Margot Coville collection. Purchase ; Coville Photographic Art Foundation ; 2001 ; (DLC/PP-2001:105). |
| Subjects | Soaps--1920-1930. Advertisements--1920-1930. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 4,501 × 3,646 px · prints to 15 × 12 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-223103 |
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