Nude study "The Silver Turban" 1930 by Dorothy Wilding 1893-1976
This is a halftone bookplate from a vintage copy of The British Journal Photographic Almanac 1930.
Largely self taught
Dorothy Wilding began her photographic career as an apprentice to
American photographer Marian Neilson before working as a re-toucher for
Richard Speight in New Bond Street, opening her first studio in 1914.
She was the first woman to be appointed as the Official Royal
Photographer for the 1937 Coronation and opened a second studio in New
York in the same year. Staggeringly successful she is best known for her
brightly lit linear society portraits photographed in high key lighting
against a white background. Demand for the ‘Wilding look’ was so great
that she employed thirty-seven people. Dorothy Wilding made a fellow of
the Royal Photographic
Society of Great Britain in 1930, and was
honoured with a solo exhibition at the society that same year. Her
surviving archives were presented to the National Portrait Gallery by
her sister Mrs Susan Morton 1976 and formed the basis of a major NPG
retrospective exhibition and catalogue in 1991, The Pursuit of
Perfection.
Delivered in an acid free archival sleeve and hard backed envelope.
happy to combine postage.