

A luxury hosiery campaign photograph in a white sample room. She lies on her side on the white paper floor, her whole body making one long unbroken diagonal from the bottom right of the frame to the top left. Her legs are stretched out together and straight, the underneath foot pointed hard so the line runs out to the toe; her upper arm is extended along the floor above her head, continuing the same line past her body to the corner. Her head rests sideways on that outstretched arm and she is looking down the length of her own body toward her feet, her mouth closed, the black bob fallen forward across the paper. Her other hand rests on the floor in front of her ribs. She wears sheer black tights and a plain black bra: one continuous piece of knit from her toes to a plain flat waistband, the same weave the whole way, no band or seam anywhere on the legs. Where her weight rests on the underneath hip the knit is compressed and creased into fine folds; along the top of the extended legs it is pulled smooth and taut all the way to the pointed toe. A fine gold chain anklet lies on the upper ankle. One hard light from high on one side throws her shadow along the paper beside her, a second long diagonal running parallel to her body, the same black as the tights. The rest of the floor is empty white paper. Three tones: white ground, her skin, and one black that is both the knit and the shadow. Camera at floor level, level, well back and slightly to the side, the whole body and the whole shadow in 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