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Sylvia Plath

Sylvia Plath
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Artist
Rollie McKenna, 15 Nov 1918 - 14 Jun 2003
Sitter
Sylvia Plath, 27 Oct 1932 - 11 Feb 1963
Date
1959 (printed later)
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")
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
Credit Line
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; gift of Rollie McKenna
Restrictions & Rights
Usage conditions apply
Copyright
© Rosalie Thorne McKenna Foundation, courtesy Center for Creative Photography, University of Arizona Foundation
Object number
NPG.95.75
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.
Data Source
National Portrait Gallery
Location
Currently not on view