Not long after Martin Munkacsi immigrated to the United States in 1934, he was offered a contract as a fashion photographer for the magazine Harper’s Bazaar by the new editor-in-chief Carmel Snow. With his modernist style—he described his aesthetic as one of “movement and diagonals”—and a background in photojournalism, Munkacsi breathed new life into the magazine’s photo spreads. This cropped photograph of a woman in a swimsuit, published in the October 1937 issue of Harper’s Bazaar, shows the model assuming “the slow, controlled motion called the corkscrew,” one of four moves illustrated in Elinor Guthrie Neff’s article on “Helena Rubinstein’s exercises for accent on bosom.”