Platinum Print: Charlotte Stribling backstage. Harlem, New York, 1950

Eve Arnold was a self-taught photographer – the only formal training she received was a brief course at the New School for Social Research in New York, with Alexey Brodovitch, the art director of Harper’s Bazaar. It was on assignment for this class that Arnold sought to address the artificiality of fashion photography in the 1950s, and at the same time give some attention to the black fashion world that was not acknowledged by the dominant fashion press of the day. In Harlem, a predominantly African American area in a segregated New York, over 300 fashion shows were taking place a year. Arnold contact a model agent who invited her meet his star model, Charlotte Stribling, known as “Fabulous”.

Platinum print
Edition of 15
Estate stamped

20 x 24 in / 50 x 60 cm

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