American Girl in Italy 1951 – Ruth Orkin. Probably Orkin’s most famous photo. She’s also famous for photos of young Leonard Bernstein and young Marlon Brando.
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Wow, look at all the creeps.
All these men looking like they’ve never seen a woman before.
We had this photo hanging in my dining room for the first 13 years of my life. I never realised what it was actually depicting until I started bumping into it as an adult. Back then it was just people in black and white.
Somebody was listening to JRE
she looks terrified
Had a poster of this from a gallery show, signed by Ms. Orkin, who was very gracious and personalized it to my wife and me..
I took it to a local frame shop who misunderstood the direction, and they cut the photo out of the poster, threw the rest (including signature) out, and framed the small print.
It’s been decades and I’m still pissed off.
Geez, even the gentlemen doubling on the moped are leering at that poor woman.
Staged surely.
Are there any versions of this famous photo with more pixels?
Ejjjjj bellaaaaa
i understand this lady perfectly. nothings changed, lol
Men are gross
As a dude, I think I may have known the feeling she seems to be having. When I had to walk by the bullies at school. I just hoped to make it through unscathed.
You can smell the BO in this picture.
If anyones curious, Orkin was on vacation with the woman in the picture, she did a few walk throughs of the scene to get this photo and even told the man on the motorbike not to look at the camera!
Oh lord. Just her and so many men. I’m a man and I feel bad for her
This photo is deeply uncomfortable for me to look at. I can almost hear the catcalling…
Is it staged?
We have that poster at my shop/showroom (mostly because we specialize in vintage italian scooter like the one in the photo). Some of us just refer to it at the “me too poster”
I was reading a comment thread the other day saying how it can be dangerous for women (they specified blonde, blue eyed) to backpack alone through Italy. Looks like that’s been an issue for a bit.
This scene is what inspired her to start a pest control company.
There are like 15 dudes to one chick in this photo… what happened in this village?
I have a framed poster of it!
While it looks random, I read it was set up and Ruth took the photo. I’m not sure if the woman pictured is still alive.
Mamma mia, che bella 👌🏽🤷🏻♂️🇮🇹
Nice Vespa
Look at those pigs, acting like they have never seen a woman before, for shame!
Simon Garfunkel looks like he’s in love. Clearly a posed shot.