Ruth Orkin: Women Judith Kerr and human action

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the second volume in TASCHEN’s Library of Esoterica series

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Ruth Orkin: Women Judith Kerr and human actionHer American Girl in Italythe street scene with the whistling Italiansis an icon. Now sensational negatives and slides have surfaced from the archive that reveal a little known side of Ruth Orkin: that of the sensitive, interested, witty chronicler of the womens world of the 1940s and 1950s. Orkin thought up editorials like the tongue in cheek reportage Who works harder? comparing the lives of a career woman and a housewife. She documented the hustle