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[Young woman modeling: full lgth., nude, looking in mirror] – Historic Print

[Young woman modeling: full lgth., nude, looking in mirror], c1902. — historic photograph
[Young woman modeling: full lgth., nude, looking in mirror], c1902.. Historic photograph from the Family Life 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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A window into the past: [Young woman modeling: full lgth., nude, looking in mirror], preserved in this historic photograph. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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Unlike the dressed figures usually grouped under clothing and dress, this full-length study shows a young woman unclothed as she looks into a mirror. The record dates it to about 1902 and credits Fritz W. Guerin as photographer, though those details come from an old caption card and have not been verified. Around the turn of the twentieth century, studio studies of the nude figure circulated among painters, sculptors and collectors, and mirror compositions were a common way to suggest a private moment. The pose and the reflection, rather than any garment, are what draw the eye.

Created / publishedc1902.
Medium1 photographic print.
NotesPhoto by Fritz W. Guerin. #46. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Glamour; Figure studies; Mirrors.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan958 × 1,536 px · prints to 3 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-147484

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