This wide-eyed portrait / fashion publicity shot of New Zealand-born model Jackie Holme was used in a late 1960s TV commercial promoting Ninette's new 'Nutmeg' youth label.

This object is part of the Bruno Benini photography archive which was acquired by the Powerhouse Museum with the assistance of the Australian Government's National Cultural Heritage Account in 2009.

If Bruno Benini particularly liked a shot he'd taken, he would make a print or as Hazel Benini recalled, 'create a blow-up and then put it up on his studio wall'. The walls of the studio foyer were covered with these, mostly 20 x 24 inch, prints. Some of the prints were damaged over the years and thrown out, however many remain, with corner pin holes intact. This is one of those prints.

The Benini archive contains photographs showing how the Benini's displayed these prints in the foyer of the studio.

Jackie Holme was a New Zealand model who moved to Australia where she gained a considerable reputation modelling in Australia. This portrait or her by Benini 'popped up' in a Nutmeg label TV advertisement.

Photographic print, portrait, black and white, mounted on card, portrait of Jacky Holme with metal framed sunglasses and 'Jimmy Hendrix' wig, photograph by Bruno Benini, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 1968

Photographed: Benini, Bruno; Melbourne, Victoria; 1968

On reverse, upper centre, in pencil, 'MODEL JACKIE (sic) HOLME / IN HER JIMMY HENDRIX WIG / STUDIO 1968 / PRINTED 1968', lower right, written in blue ink, 'JACKIE HOME (sic) / IN HER JIMMY HENDRIX / WIG', upper right, written in blue ink 'B - MELB', upper left, in pencil, '42' in a circle.

2009/43/1-2/71

1968

600 mm

504 mm

2 mm