page_title: Doris Zinkeisen
section_title: Portraits by Harold Cazneaux
hierarchical_section_title: Doris Zinkeisen / Portraits by Harold Cazneaux
caption_attribution_description: English: Doris Zinkeisen: New Idea portrait with patterned backgroundDoris Zinkeisen, photographed in 1929 by Harold Cazneaux. This photograph was one of Cazneaux's 'new idea' series of portraits for ‘The Home’ magazine, which placed subjects against painted backdrops. Cazneaux was its chief photographer. ‘The Home’ was launched in Sydney in 1920 and styled after Vogue.
context_page_description: Doris Clare Zinkeisen was a Scottish theatrical stage and costume designer, painter, commercial artist, and writer. She was best known for her work in theatrical design.
context_section_description: Harold Cazneaux produced three photographic portraits of Zinkeisen in 1929 in his role as chief photographer for The Home magazine; Doris Zinkeisen: New Idea portrait with patterned background, Doris Zinkeisen: New Idea portrait with leaf background, and Doris Zinkeisen with her brushes.
  Doris Zinkeisen: New Idea portrait with leaf background was the first photographic cover for The Home that was launched in Sydney in 1920 and modelled on the American magazines Vanity Fair and House & Garden. Zinkeisen was said to have epitomised the "New Feminine Beauty" described by The Home in 1929 as "stark simplicity of line, of corners, angles, slimness, sharpness ... twenty years ago we were born curvy and now we are born straight." The leaf background was painted by the Australian artist Adrian Feint. The photographs are part of the Art Gallery of New South Wales' Cazneaux collection.
caption: Doris Zinkeisen: New Idea portrait with patterned background (1929) by Harold Cazneaux
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