Dazzling photos capture 1940s fashion in rich color
 

Dazzling photos capture 1940s fashion in rich color
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Image: Genevieve Naylor/Corbis

Genevieve Naylor was born in Massachusetts in 1915, and moved to New York at the age of 18. There, she saw an exhibit of Berenice Abbott’s photographs, and became inspired to take up photography

She apprenticed for Abbott and shot for the Works Progress Administration (WPA). Soon she became one of the first female photographers hired by the Associated Press

An assignment from the State Department took her to Brazil, where she created vivacious images that landed her a historic one-woman show at the Museum of Modern Art in 1945

After the war, she shot fashion assignments for magazines including Vogue and Harper’s Bazaar, producing a uniquely vivid body of work. Read more...

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