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Dean Frey @dean.bsky.social

Here's the money shot, one of the most famous photographs of the period. 📷 Jinx Allen by Ruth Orkin, Florence, 1951

Jinx walks down a Florentine street, past gawking men.
sep 3, 2025, 3:50 pm • 8 1

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Dean Frey @dean.bsky.social

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).

The two friends wave from a balcony
sep 3, 2025, 3:54 pm • 5 2 • view
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Dean Frey @dean.bsky.social

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

An older Allen holds up Orkin's famous photograph
sep 3, 2025, 3:55 pm • 3 2 • view
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Dean Frey @dean.bsky.social

Ruth Orkin Leonard Bernstein in the Green Room at Carnegie Hall, 1950 They never took pictures of Toscanini like this.

A shirtless Lenny lights a cigarette
sep 3, 2025, 3:57 pm • 7 1 • view
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Dean Frey @dean.bsky.social

W. H. Auden at El Teatro Cafe in Venice 📷 Ruth Orkin, 1951

Auden in a white suit, smoking a cigarette at a sidewalk café
sep 3, 2025, 3:58 pm • 3 2 • view
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Dean Frey @dean.bsky.social

Ruth Orkin Boy and Fence, Central Park, 1965

A boy walks by a wire fence in front of the water, with the NY skyline behind him.
sep 3, 2025, 3:59 pm • 5 1 • view
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Dean Frey @dean.bsky.social

Joan Fontaine with Humphrey Bogart in a radio performance of A Farewell to Arms 📷 Ruth Orkin, 1950

Fontaine & Bogie with their scripts next to a large WNBC microphone
sep 3, 2025, 4:01 pm • 8 2 • view