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A beautiful black and white photo by Dorothy Wilding (1893-1976) named "The Silver Turban" (1930).
"Dorothy Wilding (10 January 1893 - 9 February 1976) was a noted English society photographer from Gloucester. She wanted to become an actress or artist but this career was disallowed by her uncle, in whose family she lived, so she chose the art of photography which she started to learn from the age of sixteen.
A beautiful black and white photo by Dorothy Wilding (1893-1976) named "The Silver Turban" (1930).
"Dorothy Wilding (10 January 1893 - 9 February 1976) was a noted English society photographer from Gloucester. She wanted to become an actress or artist but this career was disallowed by her uncle, in whose family she lived, so she chose the art of photography which she started to learn from the age of sixteen.
By 1929 she
had already moved studio a few times and in her Bond Street, London, studio she
attracted theatrical stars and shot her first British Royal Family portrait of
the 17-year-old Prince George (later Duke of Kent). This sitting was eventually
followed by the famous Wilding portrait of the new Queen Elizabeth II that was
used for a series of definitive postage stamps of Great Britain used between
1953 and 1967, and a series of Canadian stamps in use from 1954 to 1962. A
previous portrait sitting of Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon Queen Consort of King George
VI had turned into a double portrait of the royal couple and was adapted for
the 1937 Coronation issue stamp. That portrait led to her being the first woman
awarded a Royal Warrant to be the official photographer to a King and Queen at
their coronation. She opened a second photo studio in New York in 1937.
An
autobiography In Pursuit of Perfection was published in 1958." In: Wikipedia
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