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Floating

Toni Frissell
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Our dear friend Glynnis MacNicol somehow found time during her book tour to write the introduction for today’s release. In case you missed it, she also introduced L'Odalisque, which we launched last month in support and celebration of her sensational new memoir—and by sensational, we mean both that it is taking the world by storm, and all about sensation + pleasure. Floating by Toni Frissell is now our third Frissell photograph, and it’s such an honor, and very fitting to get the perspective of a trailblazing woman on the work of another.

—Team 20x200

"Does anything quite capture the combination of leisure and freedom that comes with summer like the pool? A blue cool postage stamp among the waves of heat. A way to be released from the body while also being fully at one with it.

When I think of the ideal swimming pool the first thing that comes to mind is the scene from The Philadelphia Story. Katharine Hepburn strutting down the diving board in her striped one-piece and launching herself into the pool. “My she was yar,” she says to Cary Grant about the toy replica he’s made of their sailboat the True Love. But she just as easily been referring to the pool: “easy to handle, quick to the helm, fast, right.”

If Katharine Hepburn’s athleticism feels like too much effort in these very hot days, turn yourself towards the another great silver screen pool, the one featured in the 1969 French film La Piscine starring Romy Schneider and Alain Delon. It is the other starring character in a film filled with ultra beautiful people. Gorgeous and languorous like the stars. In this case a place for lounging; for lovemaking.

And that is the thing about pools. You can be active or at ease. Moving forward or returning to the original state of being enveloped by water.

Toni Frissel’s Floating manages to capture both.

Frissel made her name in the mid-Twentieth Century as the person who moved fashion photography outside. Her photos are renowned for their activity and perceived candidness. After working as a volunteer during the war—becoming the official photographer for the Womens’ Army Corp and traveling to the front on multiple occasions—she returned Stateside to become the first woman photographer for Sports Illustrated.

In Frissel’s Floating the water again takes center stage, or shares it anyway, as beautiful and captivating as the women in it. Despite their repose you get the sense these women are in command of their bodies. Have agency over some parts of their lives. Are, in this moment, alive in the way water can make you feel even as you turn to it for relaxation or solace."

—Glynnis MacNicol

+ Limited-edition, exclusive to 20x200
+ Museum quality: archival inks, 100% cotton rag paper unless noted
+ Handcrafted custom-framing is available

Our quoted dimensions are for the size of paper containing the images, not the printed image itself. We do not alter the aspect ratio, nor do we crop or resize the artists’ originals. All of our prints have a minimum border of .5 inches to allow for framing.

Innova Exhibition Photo Baryta

8"x8" | Edition of 10
11"x11" | Edition of 200
16"x16" | Edition of 50
20"x20" | Edition of 25
30"x30" | Edition of 10

Artist - Toni Frissell

Toni Frissell

Antoinette Frissell Bacon, known as Toni Frissell, was born in New York City in 1907. She trained as an actress and worked in advertising before beginning her career in photography in the early 1930s. Mostly self-taught, Frissell found work at Vogue first as a caption writer, then as a fashion photographer. From 1941 through 1950, she worked for Harper’s Bazaar, but her work for the American Red Cross and later the Women’s Army Corps during World War II encouraged her toward photojournalism. It was her varied experiences and her unconventional background in photography that led her to bring models out of the studio and into the outdoors. Frissell’s style felt fresh, spontaneous, and active in a fashion world used to large format cameras and subjects standing still. Her “action-fashion” photographs were the beginning of a new trend in postwar fashion imagery. Frissell eventually tired of fashion photography, and shifted her career into more lifestyle and sports work for the likes of LIFE, Look, Vogue, and Sports Illustrated until her retirement in 1967. In 1971, she donated her photographs to the Library of Congress, making them available to the public. Frissell died due to complications from Alzheimer’s disease in 1988, but her legacy lives on in her incredible work.

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