This is one of my favourite shots, taken at the Loggia dei Lanzi next to the Uffizi Gallery. It's even more impressive when you know the subject of the statue: the Rape of the Sabine Women by the Flemish artist Jean de Boulogne. 📷 Jinx Allen by Ruth Orkin, 1951
Jinx asks directions in a great shot by Orkin. Hard to believe this was all done on the fly, and that it's not a careful set-up with specially cast extras.
Here's the money shot, one of the most famous photographs of the period. 📷 Jinx Allen by Ruth Orkin, Florence, 1951
The whole project seems to have been a hoot from start to finish. Here are the two friends together: Ruth Orkin & Jinx Allen (aka Nina Lee Craig).
Here's Jinx Allen, aka Ninalee Craig, in a photo published with her Toronto Globe & Mail obituary from May 2018. "She was a real force. Most people said they never met anyone quite like her. She enjoyed everything, was always engaged and remained curious." 📷 Fernando Morales, 2011
Ruth Orkin Leonard Bernstein in the Green Room at Carnegie Hall, 1950 They never took pictures of Toscanini like this.
Joan Fontaine with Humphrey Bogart in a radio performance of A Farewell to Arms 📷 Ruth Orkin, 1950
