For all its controversy, photographer Ruth Orkin’s “An American Girl in Italy” has long been a fixture in women’s dorm rooms and homes, an instant conversation starter about feminism and ...

Ninalee Craig, the subject of the famous “American Girl in Italy” photograph that has been a longtime favorite image for young women with a wanderlust spirit, has died at age 90, according to ...

One morning in August 1951, at a $1-a-night hotel in Florence, Italy, two American women came face to face in the hallway. One was Ruth Orkin, a promising 29-year-old photojournalist who was ...

mural-sized gelatin silver print, flush-mounted, the Orkin/Engel Archive label ... A Retrospective (New York, 1995), p. 9 Ruth Orkin, American Girl in Italy, The Making of a Classic (New York, 2005), ...

One of them is grabbing his crotch.The iconic 1951 image “American Girl in Italy” turns 60 on Monday. As its anniversary approaches, the stunnin ...

She pops her leg backwards and moves. Chances are you have seen this image before. “An American Girl in Italy” (1952) is the most famous work by photographer Ruth Orkin – who would have celebrated her ...

And connections is exactly what three Toronto restaurateurs used when they asked Ninalee Craig, 87, to come to their Italian eatery, Nodo, Saturday to do a “softer” version of American Girl in ...

For all its controversy, photographer Ruth Orkin’s “An American Girl in Italy” has long been a fixture in women’s dorm rooms and homes, an instant conversation starter about feminism and ...

A Gallery for Fine Photography business card taped on upper edge on frame verso. From a series of the same name, "American Girl in Italy" is one of the most iconic images in the history of the medium.

“Do you want it tilted, straight, smiling, not smiling?” asks Ninalee Craig, obliging a photographer with each and every look. The camera shutter snaps rapid-fire, and Craig looks pleased ...