William Helburn - Simone D'Aillencourt & The Washington Arch, New York in the Mid Fifites

Black and white digital printing with glossy lamination.. Hot surface lamination. Old copy of the Misomex editing (machine for film or file replication CTP - Computer to Plate - used to impose offset plates).
SERAG Printer. Next print.
Format 15 x 19 cm, mounted on 24 x 30 cm cardboard.

The French Simone D'Aillencourt is in New York.
Street scene in front of the Arc de Triomphe at Washington Square Park.
French elegance transferred to the United States: at first glance, one might think they are on the Champs-Élysées!
Noted from her beginnings in England, Simone D'Aillencourt later became the famous subject of Melvin Sokolsky's 1963 photographic series 'Bubble,' shot in Paris for Harper's Bazaar.