Clarence H. White School
of Photography
Wynn Richards (1888-1960)
Preparing Yarn for Weaving,
1948
[published in the June 1948 issue of Vogue]
Gelatin silver photo collage
Prints & Photographs
Division
Gift/purchase from Warren and Margot Coville
and the Coville Foundation for Photographic Art.
Displayed online courtesy of the
National Cotton Council (195.4a)
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Wynn Richards contracted with the National Cotton Council and began
its first national fashion advertising campaign in 1943. For the
campaign, Richards photographed various state governors' wives and
children wearing cotton fashions, fashion designers with their creations,
and the story of cotton from the field to the mill. Richards's photographs
were reproduced in full-page advertisements in Vogue,
Harper's Bazaar, and Mademoiselle. This
image is part of the Warren and Margot Coville Collection of the
Clarence H. White School of Photography, containing 280 photographs
by White and his students and other printed materials relating to
this landmark school located in New York City from 1914 to1942.
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