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Olive Cotton (Aust., 1911–2003).

[Model Jenny Brereton During Photo Shoot]

c1939/later printing. Silver gelatin photograph, signed in ink in lower margin”, annotated in pencil verso, 16.8 x 15.4cm.

Annotation reads “Olive Cotton c. 1940s. Not a professional assignment.”

This image of Olive Cotton’s friend and model, Jenny Brereton, was taken during the shoot for Cotton’s iconic image Only to taste the warmth, the light, the wind (title from the verse of the 1895 poem by British poet Laurence Binyon). In both images, Brereton is wearing the same swimsuit. Ref: Ennis, Olive Cotton, AGNSW, 2000.

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Item #CL207-30

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