Sitting Down on the Job: A Skier's Cigarette Break, 1950s

Somewhere on a slope bright enough to erase the horizon, a skier has come to rest in the snow, one pole flung out at the end of its wrist strap like a fishing line that never got a bite. The sunglasses and the cigarette pinched between the lips suggest a man who regards falling down as an interruption to his composure rather than to his dignity.