Ok, I’m 95% sure I’ve seen this image before, but don’t know if it has a name or how to find it. The other 5% of me leans towards the possibility that my mind has created the picture by cannibalising little pieces of other real pictures and concepts.
It’s a stark black and white image, not a photograph, of a woman’s head and neck, possibly shoulders. Her face is very undetailed. It’s done in kind of a stylised, sleek way of drawing, I thought maybe art deco style, but I’m not sure. Definitely conjures up an 1920s-30s feel.
Anyway, she has a large black hat on at an angle which also partially covers her face. You can see either one or both of her hands lifted up near her face. In one hand she has either a cigarette or a cigaratte in a lengthy cigarette-holder. I see the hat and the cigaratte as being on her right hand side.
As I said, I’m not sure where I’ve seen it, but I get the feeling it’s a common stock image. I’ve Google-Imaged about all of the word combinations for this that I can think of.
Does it ring any bells with any dopers? I may be remembering half of a full-body picture, or not remembering accurately. I’m after this image or something close.
Don’t know if this is better off in GQ, but it was art so I put it here. Move at will.
Thanks, that’s a similar style, but not quite. Though the site’s ‘smoking advertisments’ section led me to this which is very close. The style isn’t quite right but the woman is basically correct, the hat is as I recall. Except I’m looking for a pure black & white illustration, as though it was done with black ink on white paper.
I know it’s not what you’re looking for, but I just have to say how the image you have here was later used as inspiration for the advertising and playbill of Wicked.
To me, it sounds like the graphic used in the opening sequence of the BBC adaptation of the Lord Peter Wimsey books Have His Carcass, Strong Poison, and Gaudy Night (the ones with Petherbridge, not the ones with Carmichael); it shows a 1930’s long sleek automobile pulling up, Lord Peter and Harriet Vane emerging, and she’s as you described, with cigarette in a long cigarette holder. I think he lights her cig and she turns towards the “camera” just as the intro screen titles roll.
