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Walking into the weekend like >>

Miami c. 1980

From a select series done in Miami, one of @serenawoodward’s favorites.

Available for prints. DM for more info

This photo got a lot of responses last night…. A little history of the photo - it was taken in Acapulco at the home of legendary Hostess, Emi Fors (Not Pictured). Slim Aarons was at the same party, taking similar photos. See story for Slims sh

There are *so* many photos in this archive, so sometimes it takes a second set of eyes to find some of the real gems. A friend of mine found this photo while going through a “Paris, Haute Couture Fashion Week” folder. Amidst photos of fas

Paris, circa 1965. A young Emanuel Ungaro—one of the emerging talents out of Balenciaga’s house post WW2, reshaping Paris couture with his sensual elegance and modern femininity—photographed by Orator Woodward for the New York Heral

Frank Brandstetter, who transformed Las Brisas in Acapulco into a premier resort, looks over the bay at the home of a friend of Orator’s at sunset.

Prints available on our website www.oratorwoodward.com

This is a fun one - Orator on the right with Lulu Vanderbilt at a debutante ball in Palm Beach, likely around 1953 🖤 They were each around age 18 at the time.

Boating at Jamaica’s Goldeneye Resort in the late 1960s 🖤
Models Louise Mcgregor and Alberta Tiburzi pose in custom designer robes.

Prints available on oratorwoodward.com

Jamaica, late 1960s

During extended stays in Jamaica, Woodward photographed daily life along the coast—favoring unposed moments shaped by light, rhythm, and routine. Here, two figures pause at the shoreline as a sailboat passes just offshore.

The Big Bunny on a Mexican tarmac, 1970. Hefner had come to scout land for Nirvana, a Playboy resort that was never built. When the local developer suggested simply clearing the families who lived on the beach, Bernie Cornfeld, friend & financier

This is one of my favorite photos of my dad’s archive. While traveling in Greece via car ferry one summer, he found himself in a friends Ferrari. The horse - the primary mode of transportation on this island by the locals - juxtaposed with the

Parties galore - my dad didn’t just take photos of beautiful friends, but in studying his images I’ve started to see what an eye he had for composing a complex scene like a space in a bar or at a restaurant. One thing is for sure…

My dad loved a good closeup. He photographed beauty so elegantly, and I think you can really see the friendship he had with many of the women he photographed.

All images available as prints. DM for info.

On more than a few trips to the islands, @alberta_tiburzi was the subject of my dad’s work. Here are some of my favorite images of their time in Jamaica, my dad experimenting with Reportage x Fashion photography (#3) under the guidance of the g

In honor of *autumn*, some moments on Northwood Farm where my dad spent most of the late 60s to early 80s, home between 5th avenue and Patterson, NY.

The first photo is of a friend of his who frequented the farm from NYC. Second is the famous Don M

Moments in time in St Tropez, sometimes in the 1970s

Prints available. DM for more info.

Did someone say crochet bikinis are back in style? Well, they never went out of style in Capri.

Styles changed throughout the 1960s-90s drastically, yet so much of mt dad’s archives shows a sense of class and distinction throughout. Here are

Summer ’69: Just a girl, her dreams, and a couple of baking sheets

Prints available. DM for info.

Dreaming of an Italian summer? Me too.

Capri 1979
Edition of 20. Reproductions available.

Walking into the weekend like >>

Miami c. 1980

From a select series done in Miami, one of @serenawoodward’s favorites.

Available for prints. DM for more info

There are *so* many photos in this archive, so sometimes it takes a second set of eyes to find some of the real gems. A friend of mine found this photo while going through a “Paris, Haute Couture Fashion Week” folder. Amidst photos of fas

Frank Brandstetter, who transformed Las Brisas in Acapulco into a premier resort, looks over the bay at the home of a friend of Orator’s at sunset.

Prints available on our website www.oratorwoodward.com

The Big Bunny on a Mexican tarmac, 1970. Hefner had come to scout land for Nirvana, a Playboy resort that was never built. When the local developer suggested simply clearing the families who lived on the beach, Bernie Cornfeld, friend & financier

This is one of my favorite photos of my dad’s archive. While traveling in Greece via car ferry one summer, he found himself in a friends Ferrari. The horse - the primary mode of transportation on this island by the locals - juxtaposed with the

Parties galore - my dad didn’t just take photos of beautiful friends, but in studying his images I’ve started to see what an eye he had for composing a complex scene like a space in a bar or at a restaurant. One thing is for sure…

In honor of *autumn*, some moments on Northwood Farm where my dad spent most of the late 60s to early 80s, home between 5th avenue and Patterson, NY.

The first photo is of a friend of his who frequented the farm from NYC. Second is the famous Don M

Did someone say crochet bikinis are back in style? Well, they never went out of style in Capri.

Styles changed throughout the 1960s-90s drastically, yet so much of mt dad’s archives shows a sense of class and distinction throughout. Here are

Summer ’69: Just a girl, her dreams, and a couple of baking sheets

Prints available. DM for info.

Dreaming of an Italian summer? Me too.

Capri 1979
Edition of 20. Reproductions available.

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