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Originally Posted by miri
Of note, the use of various forms of window blinds/shutters in the background settings can be seen in a few of the photoshoots.
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Yes, quite. Unfortunately, blinds per se were largely just a cheap way of providing a "background" for a studio setting/scene, and virtually all used them at some point. I've no idea who was first (probably much, much earlier--19C/beginning of photog?) but just for example, early Stephen Hicks (early-1980s) used them a bit. Flodqvist notably-so, Sass, Bruun, but also loads of others. Perhaps
no photog.
never used them?
It's only when one finds something distinctive--e.g. Flodqvist's semi-circular plaster "window" (frame), or the blue fan, etc.--that it starts to become more useful. One also (slowly) starts to discern seeming patterns, e.g. groups of props. Flodqvist often used blinds, a metal bed frame (painted various colours, for variety), large plastic coloured (e.g. pink) bead necklaces & so forth together. Having assembled a group of props they probably needed to be used several times in order to get much worth out of them, before tiring of them/discarding them for something "new". So one gets "phases" of props-sets.
Anyway, straying a bit.
