Nude Staring Back, Loaded Antique Photograph of Model on Table with Wrinkled Fabric and Painted Backdrop signal flag cards 6 3/8" l x 3

6 3/8" l x 3 3/4" w x 5 3/4" from underside to top of wire (where it bends

imparting her with a great sense of strength and force (she rather reminds me of a figure from a Thomas Hart Benton painting

which I purchased on ebay in a largely unnoticed auction listing from a seller not typically dealing in older things

from her expression that seems a complex mix of of wise and proud and sorrowfully resigned

Nude Staring Back, Loaded Antique Photograph of Model on Table with Wrinkled Fabric and Painted Backdrop signal flag cards 6 3/8" l x 3I've held on to this one for a while, and will hold it in my mind long after it is gone, though I'd also be glad to keep it forever; as I write this I realize I am indeed completely obsessed with this photograph! My first thought upon finding it was of art historian Linda Nochlin, and of every art history course I ever took, especially those focused on postmodern critique; this photograph feels very much to me as though it should live on the cover of