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Enid Boulting

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Enid Boulting

by Norman Parkinson
bromide fibre print on cream card mount, 1950
19 1/2 in. x 14 3/8 in. (495 mm x 365 mm)
Given by Norman Parkinson, 1981 in conjunction with the NPG exhibition 'Norman Parkinson: 50 Years of Portraits and Fashion'
Photographs Collection
NPG x30088

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  • Enid Boulting (1928-), Fashion model; former wife of Roy Boulting, and later wife of 9th Earl of Hardwicke. Sitter in 3 portraits.

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  • Norman Parkinson (1913-1990), Photographer. Artist or producer of 244 portraits, Sitter in 14 portraits.

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This study shows the South-African born model Enid Munnik , third wife of film director Roy Boulting, wearing a Helena Geffers suit, which the designer entitled 'Impertinence'. The new brutalism in its concept and Parkinson's photograph caused a sensation. American Vogue's editor-in-chief, Edna Woolman Chase, commented in a cable from New York 'Smoking in Vogue, so tough , so unfeminine!'. Prior to this models could be only be shown in Vogue smoking with a cigarette holder. In the 1970s Parkinson also worked with Enid's daughter Ingrid Boulting before she went on to pursue a film career starring opposite Robert De Niro in The Last Tycoon (1976)

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Current affairs

Princess Anne is born at Clarence house, the only daughter of Princess Elizabeth and Prince Philip.

Art and science

C.S. Lewis publishes The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe, the first book in the Chronicles of Narnia series. Lewis was an Oxford Don, specialising in Medieval Literature and its use of allegory. The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe is often seen as an allegory of the Christian struggle between good and evil.

International

Following the Soviet and American withdrawal from the occupation of North and South Korea respectively, the Korean War breaks out as each side seeks to unify Korea under its own political system. While the U.S.A., U.K and other UN nations came to the defence of South Korea, North Korea had support from the Soviet Union and China. The war continued until 1953.

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