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A celebration of the life and work of the twentieth-century photographer discusses her studies in Europe, her free-lance career in the United States, her depiction of a Depression-ravaged America, and her decision to abandon her career to raise a family.
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This is an undocumented biography of a photographer best known for the compassionate Farm Security photographs she took during the final years of the Depression and nearly forgotten today. In 1941, at the age of 31, Marion Post abandoned her greatest passion to pursue marriage and motherhood, having produced a remarkable body of work in only three years. Few of the photographs here are familiar, but all are strong and enduring images of common places and common people, good-hearted Americans struggling to keep their lives intact during the most catastrophic experience of our century. Washington Post staff writer Hendrickson tells Wolcott's story in a folksy narrative that often overpowers her unobtrusive photographic style. The absence of footnotes and a bibliography limits the book's audience and usefulness, though informed readers will be interested.
- Kathleen Collins, New York Transit Museum Archives
Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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- Kathleen Collins, New York Transit Museum Archives
Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc.
The best of Marion Post Wolcott's (1910-1990) photographs of the Deep South during the Depression rank with those of Walker Evans and Dorothea Lange, her colleagues in the Farm Security Administration. Unlike them, Wolcott (who also ventured to Montana and Vermont) is scarcely remembered today, partly because she dropped out of the FSA in 1942 after three years on the road, renouncing her art for the sake of marriage and children. Illustrated with 92 photographs, this affectionate biographical-critical portrait by Washington Post staff writer Hendrickson recreates Wolcott's brave solo travels, from shantytowns and speakeasies to plantations, coal miners' homes, strikes and swank beach clubs. Her cogent documentary pictures celebrate ordinary, enduring Americans and fathom the hidden costs of racial bigotry, cowboy dreams and our tendency to make the dispossessed invisible.
Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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