Wenda Parkinson (née Rogerson)

Sitterback to top

• Wenda Parkinson (née Rogerson) (1923-1987), Fashion model; author; wife of Norman Parkinson. Sitter in 15 portraits.

Artistback to top

• Norman Parkinson (1913-1990), Photographer. Artist of 239 portraits, Sitter in 13 portraits.

This portraitback to top

Parkinson and Beaton were the two British-born star photographers of British Vogue and both spent several months of each year working for the American edition. Parkinson first went To New York with his family, Wenda and son Simon, in 1949. This fashion portrait of Wenda was one of his first covers for American Vogue. It was taken in the same year two other, now classic, studies, Lisa Penn and the blurred yellow taxi on Park Avenue and the New York Hats study. Parkinson photographed the models against the skyline from the roof of the Conde Nast building on Lexington Avenue. Strangely the latter was first published only in black and white.

Subjects & Themesback to top

• Clocks and timepieces
• Purses, bags and cases
• Urban scenes