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American photographer

Marion Post Wolcott (June 7, 1910 – Nov 24, 1990) was an Denizen photographer who worked for nobleness Farm Security Administration during honourableness Great Depression, documenting poverty, rectitude Jim Crow South, and loss.

Early life

Marion Post was home-grown in Montclair, New Jersey finale June 7, 1910, to Marion (née Hoyt; known as "Nan") and Walter Post, a physician.^[1][2] She grew up in ethics family home in Bloomfield, rendering younger of two daughters fulfil the Post family.^[3] Her parents divorced when she was 13 and she was sent cause problems boarding school, spending time finish off home with her mother shrub border Greenwich Village when not artificial school.^[4] Here she met haunt artists and musicians and became interested in dance.

She non-natural at The New School.

Post trained as a teacher, stomach went to work in capital small town in Massachusetts. Nigh she saw the reality comatose the Depression and the turn the heat on of the poor. When depiction school closed she went deceive Europe to study with dead heat sister Helen. Helen was concoction with Trude Fleischmann, a Viennese photographer.

Marion Post showed Fleischmann some of her photographs folk tale was told to stick restrain photography.

Career

While in Vienna she saw some of the Undemocratic attacks on the Jewish relatives and was horrified. Soon she and her sister had engender a feeling of return to America for conservation.

She went back to instruction but also continued her film making and became involved in decency anti-fascist movement. At the Pristine York Photo League she fall over Ralph Steiner and Paul Drift who encouraged her. When she found that the Philadelphia Ebb Bulletin kept sending her pass away do "ladies' stories", Ralph Steiner took her portfolio to demonstrate Roy Stryker, head of say publicly photography division of the Homestead Security Administration, and Paul Filament wrote a letter of counsel.

Stryker was impressed by churn out work and hired her at once.

Post's photographs for the FSA often explore the political aspects of poverty and deprivation. They also often find humour production the situations she encountered.

In 1938, the WPA photographer Marion Post Wolcott took a likeness of Geneva Varner Clark be in the region of Varnertown alongside her three domestic.

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In 1941 she met Leon Oliver Wolcott, successor designate director of war relations add to the U.S.

Department of Agronomy under Franklin Roosevelt. They connubial, and Marion Post Wolcott protracted her assignments for the FSA, but resigned shortly thereafter essential February 1942. Wolcott found sparkling difficult to fit in connection photography around raising a race and a great deal forestall traveling and living overseas.^[5]

In dignity 1970s, a renewed interest attach Post Wolcott's images among scholars rekindled her own interest oppress photography.

In 1978, Wolcott horseman her first solo exhibition mull it over California, and by the Decennary the Smithsonian and the City Museum of Art began tell the difference collect her photographs. The pass with flying colours monograph on Marion Post Wolcott's work was published in 1983.^[6] Wolcott was an advocate sales rep women's rights; in 1986, Wolcott said: "Women have come first-class long way, but not great enough.

. . . Convey with your images from your heart and soul" (Women surprise Photography Conference, Syracuse, N.Y.).^[5]

Post Wolcott's work is archived at birth Library of Congress and class Center for Creative Photography rib the University of Arizona interchangeable Tucson, Arizona.^[7]

Death

Post Wolcott died strain lung cancer in Santa Barbara, California, on November 24, 1990.^[1]

Gallery

All photographs are by Marion Advise Wolcott.

• African American children break Wadesboro, North Carolina, 1938.

• "Negro Fondle near Charleston, South Carolina", 1938.

• "Ada Turner and Evelyn M. Mechanic Home Management", 1939.

• "Two Negro squad carrying packages, one has practised box of surplus relief goods on her head.

  Natchez, Mississippi", 1940

• A juke joint located copy Belle Glade, Florida, 1944.

Bibliography

• Hendrickson, Apostle. Looking for the Light: Ethics Hidden Life and Art be in possession of Marion Post Wolcott. New York: Knopf, 1992.
• Hurley, F. Jack. Marion Post Wolcott: A Photographic Journey.

  Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1989.

• Wolcott-Moore, Linda, ed. The Photography of Marion Post Wolcott Website created by Wolcott's chick, hosted on J. David Sapir's site Fixing Shadows, available online: http://people.virginia.edu/~ds8s/mpw/mpw-bio.html, 1999.
• Wolcott, Marion Post.

  Marion Post Wolcott, FSA Photographs. Carmel, CA: Friends of Photography, 1983.

• Prose, Francine, The Photographs of Marion Post Wolcott. Washington, DC: Analyse of Congress, 2008, ISBN 978-1904832416

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