

A luxury hosiery campaign photograph in a white sample room. A row of five identical wooden hosiery leg forms stands side by side on plain metal stands, evenly spaced, each one cut off flat at the top of the thigh, and every one of them is wearing the same sheer black stocking. Standing in the row with them, in the same place and the same spacing, is one real human leg wearing the same stocking - hers - and the rest of her body is behind the row and cut off by the top edge of the frame, so only the leg belongs to the picture. The six legs read as six black vertical strokes at even intervals across the whole width of the frame. On the five wooden forms the knit is pulled flat and dead over a hard smooth surface with no give in it; on the living leg the same knit follows the kneecap, the line of the shin bone, the tendon behind the ankle, and it is very slightly creased at the back of the knee. The one thing that tells you which leg is alive is a fine gold chain anklet, which only that leg has. One hard light from the left throws six parallel shadows across the white paper floor. Three tones: white ground, black knit, and the pale wood of the forms. Camera at knee height, level, straight on, the whole row filling the frame corner to corner. one hard raking source, extreme high contrast, deep focus, everything sharp. Fine 35mm film grain. In the lower right corner, a small pencil signature: Ziggy