Mary Jane Russell

Mary Jane Russell (July 10, 1926 – November 20, 2003) was a New York City-based American photographic fashion model active from 1948 to 1961. She often worked with Louise Dahl-Wolfe and Irving Penn, and appeared on many covers for Vogue and Harper's Bazaar during the course of her modelling career. After Edward returned from the War, they were married on 21 December 1946 to take advantage of the longest night of the year.

Modelling career Mary Jane Russell began her modelling career in 1948, and was signed with Ford Models for the duration. Her long neck and classical features were perfectly suited to the fashions of the period. Eventually, Carmel Snow, the editor of Harper's Bazaar, intervened and personally asked Russell to work with Dahl-Wolfe a third time. showed her and a man reading in bed together, captioned "For people who take their reading seriously". The image was subsequently sold by the Marlboro Book Shops to a bedsheets company, Spring Mills Inc., where it was touched up to give the man a beard, and advertised in three magazines (Ladies' Home Journal, Look, and Promenade), inviting readers to submit their own captions, such as "Lost Between the Covers". In addition to this the substantial alterations made to the image meant it was no longer the same portrait that Russell had agreed could be used, and therefore she was entitled to damages.