Ruth Orkin

mural-sized, mounted, an Orkin/Engel Film & Photo Archive label, signed, titled, dated, and copyrighted by the photographer's daughter, Mary Engel, in ink on the reverse, matted, framed, another Orkin/Engel Film & Photo Archive label affixed to the reverse, 1951, printed in the early 1980s (Ruth Orkin, p. 9; American Girl in Italy, cover and pl. 10; A History of Women Photographers, p. 234; Defining Eye, p. 26)

Ruth Orkin Photo Archive

This mural-sized photograph, mounted to thick board, is in generally very good condition. Visible, primarily in raking light, are 8 sharp and ridged handling creases which do not break the emulsion, across the center of the print; these likely occured when the print was rolled for storage purposes. Also visible in raking light are 2 small indentations in the lower left quadrant. There are 4 small areas of original retouching visible in the print, as well as a few tiny white specks in the negative. There is a small piece of white tape, one inch wide, at the bottom margin edge that does not affect the image. In the early 1980s, the photographer supervised a printing run of approximately 25 photographs in this size format, of which this is one.
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