Girl in Pajamas, Indoor Portrait, 1950s

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Girl in Pajamas, Indoor Portrait, 1950s — Archive & Atlas

Unattributed 1950–1959

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A girl of about ten sits on a dark upholstered armchair in a modest bedroom, wearing printed cotton pajamas in pale blue with a small floral pattern, a standard garment choice for the 1950s when pajamas were the accepted sleepwear for children and photographs were taken of them as though indoor clothes were nothing remarkable. The room behind her is papered in a quilted blue pattern, the walls bare except for a small electrical outlet and a framed print, the kind of background a family might prepare when someone with a camera came to visit. She holds her posture with the practiced stillness of a child who had been told to sit still and look at the lens, her hand resting in her lap in a gesture that suggests this was a formal occasion, though the occasion was evidently just another afternoon at home. The warm light from the camera's flash has caught the texture of the upholstery and the wallpaper with an exactness that was, in 1950s color film, both a technical triumph and a domestic fact—families were learning to document themselves in their ordinary rooms, treating the everyday as though it warranted the trouble of color stock and a photographer's visit.

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