

A luxury hosiery campaign photograph in a white sample room. She stands with her feet apart and folds forward from the hips over her own straight legs, hands flat on the white paper floor on either side of her feet, her head hanging down between her own shins. The camera is lying on the floor in front of her feet, very low and level and close, looking straight at her, so the picture is two black vertical legs filling the left and right of the frame and, low between them, her upside-down face. She is looking straight into the lens, upside down, her eyes level and open, her mouth closed. Her black bob hangs straight down from her inverted head and the ends of it touch the paper. She wears sheer black tights - 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 - and a plain black bra. Down the two legs the knit is pulled tight and smooth over the shins and the tops of the feet and gathers into fine horizontal creases at each ankle. A fine gold chain anklet sits on the right ankle, at the top edge of the frame where the leg leaves the picture. Her hands are flat and spread on the floor, the short bare nails white against the paper. One hard light from the left rakes across her face and down the inside of the near leg; the white ground burns out clean behind her. Three tones: white ground, the two black legs, her lit face. Camera at floor level, level, close, straight on. one hard source, extreme high contrast, shallow depth of field, sharp focus on her upside-down eyes. Fine 35mm film grain. In the lower right corner, a small pencil signature: Ziggy