Caught in the Act

Caught in the Act

Photograph

Caught in the Act

The Bikini Beat


1962
Gelatin silver print
Image: 7 3/16 × 9 3/8 in. (18.3 × 23.8 cm)
Paper: 8 × 10 in. (20.3 × 25.4 cm)
Gift of Time-Life Books
1968.0184.0368
Inscriptions Typed in black ink on applied label, verso BC: (Bikini) 9/62 26) CAUGHT IN THE ACT: One dozing sun bather in a \ forbidden haltertop heard the footsteps too late. \ Credit: Tom Salling © 1962 MAGNUM Photos
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