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American Goddess Jean Patchett
Jean Patchett was both model and muse, a famous face from New Yorks vibrant midcentury popular culture and the most successful highfashion model of her time. A young American goddess in Paris couture, was Irving Penns epitaph for Patchett, who he photographed for a classic series in Lima, Peru, in stunning images from the Vogue studios and for a series of nudes he called the major artistic experience of my life. Letters from Patchett to her family show a young woman in love with life and eager to share the thrills and struggles of her career. Quotes from photographers Cecil Beaton, John Rawlings, William Bill Helburn, Jerry Schatzberg, and Stephen Colhoun reflect their admiration for Patchetts technical skills as a model as well as her unique beauty. American Goddess Jean Patchett captures Patchett s career in a biographical essay and explores its scope in 120 editorial and advertising images from Vogue, Glamour, and Harpers Bazaar some iconic, some personal, and some that have never
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