Virginia Thoren Collection
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Virgnia Thoren graduated from Pratt Institute in 1942 with a degree in Advertising and Design. She went on to work as a couture photographer for such magazines as Vogue and Town and Country. The Virginia Thoren Collection was curated Thoren's close friend by Betty Guernsey and donated to the Pratt Institute Libraries in 2007. It consists of professional and personal shots of top models, photographs of friends and society people, landscape photographs, scrapbooks, and other personal items.
The collection is housed in the Brooklyn Campus of the Pratt Institute Libraries and managed by the Digital and Special Collections Department. For more information about the collection, please contact image.library@pratt.edu.
Image Credit: Virginia on Assignment with Camera,c. 1955. © Virginia Thoren Collection, Pratt Institute Libraries
Learn More - Books from the Catalog
- Famous for Fifteen Minutes byPublication Date: 1988
The Power of Glamour by Call Number: 111.85 P858ISBN: 9781416561118Publication Date: 2013-11-05The nature of glamour. The magic of glamour ; Inarticulate longings -- The elements of glamour. Dreams of flight and tranformation and escape ; The art that conceals art ; Leave something to the imagination -- The evolution of glamour. From a muse of fire to the gleam of a thousand lights ; The world of tomorrow ; The uses of enchantment.