[Back view of fashion models in swim suits, two kneeling wearing swim fins, and one seated] – Antique Photo Print
![[Back view of fashion models in swim suits, two kneeling wearing swim fins, and one seated], [1950] — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/88/8805b99c7fca-L.webp)
(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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A window into the past: [Back view of fashion models in swim suits, two kneeling wearing swim fins, and one seated], preserved in this historic photograph. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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[Back view of fashion models in swim suits, two kneeling wearing swim fins, and one seated]
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Most fashion pictures of 1950 show models facing the camera, so this back view stands out. Two models kneel while wearing swim fins, and a third sits nearby, with the swimsuits and the fins as the main subjects. Toni Frissell made the photograph for *Harper's Bazaar*, which published it in January 1950, when the magazine was a leading showcase for American sportswear and resort fashion. The fins suggest the postwar fascination with leisure, water sports and seaside vacations. The picture belongs to Frissell's larger body of fashion work, in which she often used outdoor settings and natural poses.
| Created / published | [1950] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print. |
| Genre | Fashion photographs 1950.Photographic prints 1950. |
| Notes | Toni Frissell Collection (Library of Congress). Published in Harper's bazaar, January 1950. Image published in: Toni Frissell: Photographs, 1933-1967. New York, New York : Doubleday, 1994, p. 24. Unprocessed in PR 06 CN 651; formerly in box 49. |
| Subjects | Fashion models--1950. Women--Clothing & dress--1950. Bathing suits--1950. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,167 × 1,465 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-218251 |
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