Ruth Orkin
Photographer
Title: ‘Coca-Cola’
Location: New York City, USA
Date: 1950
Camera: 35mm
O he work of American photographer, journalist and filmmaker Ruth Orkin appears in up inenergy and endless photographic opportunities. Captured in 1950, Orkin’s photo of people standing at a food counter shows her interest in the minutiae of New York life, what photography curator Anne Morin describes as “a sort of fluid lyricism” in her introduction to Ruth Orkin (Photofile).
