Image: Doris Zinkeisen by Harold Cazneaux

Description: Doris Zinkeisen: New Idea portrait with leaf background Doris Zinkeisen, photographed in 1929 by Harold Cazneaux. This was the first photographic cover for ‘The Home’ magazine (1929, 'The Home', May, in Hill V 2000, 'The Cazneaux women', Craftsman House, Sydney p 73). Cazneaux was its chief photographer. ‘The Home’ was launched in Sydney in 1920 and styled after Vogue. Zinkeisen was said to have epitomised the ‘New Feminine Beauty’ described by ‘The Home’ in 1929 as: ‘stark simplicity of line, of corners, angles, slimness, sharpness … twenty years ago we were born curvy and now we are born straight.’ The leaf background was painted by the Australian artist Adrian Feint. This photograph was one of Cazneaux's 'new idea' series of portraits, which placed subjects against painted backdrops.
Title: Doris Zinkeisen by Harold Cazneaux
Credit: Art Gallery of New South Wales - Collection - Harold Cazneaux
Author: Harold Cazneaux
Usage Terms: Public domain
License: Public domain
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