Horst P. Horst

platinum-palladium print, the photographer's signature blindstamp in the margin, signed, titled, dated, numbered '1/3' (circled), and annotated 'H.P.H # 146' by the photographer and annotated in an unidentified hand in pencil on the reverse, matted, framed, 1937, printed later, no. 1 in an edition of 3 (Form Horst, pl. 26; Fashion: 1900-1939, pl. 69)

This photograph, on thin Strathmore Script paper, is in generally excellent condition. There are two extremely faint pinpoint areas of discoloration in the margins, neither affecting the image.
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