

A luxury hosiery campaign photograph, white studio, one hard light. A single ladder is running down the back of a sheer black stocking, from the welt at the top of the thigh to the middle of the calf, one clean bright line of bare skin through the black knit. She stands with her back to the camera in the stocking, a black suspender belt and black high heels and nothing else, her weight on that leg, and she has turned at the waist and is looking back and down over her own shoulder at the ladder, her mouth closed, the black bob swung round with the turn, a fine gold chain anklet catching the light on her right ankle. One hand is on her hip and the other reaches back and stops just above the top of the ladder without touching it, the short bare nails clear against the black. Framed from her heels to the top of her head, she is over to the right, the white paper ground empty on the left. Camera at hip height, level, well back. one hard source from the left so the ladder catches the light along its whole length, white ground, extreme high contrast, deep focus. In the lower right corner, a small pencil signature: Ziggy