Melvin Sokolsky's Bubble Series

In the fashion photography world of the 1960s, photographer Melvin Sokolsky insisted that female beauty and the gesture of the model herself were just as important as the clothing she wore. At the time, this was a radical concept, and he pushed the idea to the limit in his groundbreaking 1963 “Bubble” series for Harper’s Bazaar, in which models donning elegant couture were suspended in a Plexiglas bubble over Paris. On the Seine, Paris, 1963, features a fetching couture-clad model skims over the river in a bubble.

From “Inside the Bubble of Melvin Sokolsky” by Jeffrey Podolsky for Introspective Magazine, 2016; Photo by Melvin Sokolsky

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