Sylvia Plath
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Object Details
- Artist
- Rollie McKenna, 15 Nov 1918 - 14 Jun 2003
- Sitter
- Sylvia Plath, 27 Oct 1932 - 11 Feb 1963
- Exhibition Label
- Professional photographer Rollie McKenna captured many famous British and American poets, including Dylan Thomas, T. S. Eliot, Ted Hughes, Robert Lowell, Anne Sexton, and Sylvia Plath. Many of McKenna’s portraits have become the defining images of her subjects, particularly in the case of Thomas and Plath. This vintage print of Plath was taken in 1959 at her 9 Willow Street apartment in Boston. At this stage in her life, Plath was auditing Robert Lowell’s poetry seminar at Boston University with Anne Sexton.
- La fotógrafa profesional Rollie McKenna retrató a muchos poetas británicos y estadounidenses, entre ellos Dylan Thomas, T. S. Eliot, Ted Hughes, Robert Lowell, Anne Sexton y Plath. Muchas de sus fotos han llegado a ser imágenes definidoras de sus sujetos, sobre todo en el caso de Thomas and Plath. Esta fotografía de Plath fue tomada en 1959 en su apartamento de la calle Willow número 9, en Boston. En esa época, Plath asistía como oyente al seminario de poesía de Robert Lowell en la Universidad de Boston con Anne Sexton.
- Credit Line
- National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; gift of Rollie McKenna
- 1959 (printed later)
- Object number
- NPG.95.75
- Restrictions & Rights
- Usage conditions apply
- Copyright
- © Rosalie Thorne McKenna Foundation, courtesy Center for Creative Photography, University of Arizona Foundation
- Type
- Photograph
- Medium
- Gelatin silver print
- Dimensions
- Image/Sheet: 18.4 x 14cm (7 1/4 x 5 1/2")
- Mat: 45.7 x 35.6cm (18 x 14")
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- National Portrait Gallery Collection
- Location
- Currently not on view
- National Portrait Gallery
- Topic
- Costume\Jewelry\Necklace
- Interior
- Costume\Jewelry\Pendant
- Sylvia Plath: Female
- Sylvia Plath: Literature\Writer\Poet
- Sylvia Plath: Education and Scholarship\Educator\Professor\College
- Sylvia Plath: Literature\Writer\Novelist
- Sylvia Plath: Pulitzer Prize
- Portrait
- Record ID
- npg_NPG.95.75
- Metadata Usage (text)
- Usage conditions apply
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/sm4e0be3327-87cc-4611-b4df-34c7177c185a
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