| Names: | | | Dates: | 1922 - 2005, 16 August | | Born: | US, IL, Evanston | | Died: | US, NM, Albuquerque | | Active: | US | | Gender: | Female |
She specialized in photographing middle aged and older people (particularly her friends and family). She also did a study called Face Lift that examined her own responses to having the operation. She was the first woman trained to fly American military aircraft and served in the Second World War and Korea. She later used this experience to work with woman veteran pilots in the Soviet Union.Preparing biographies | |
Family history
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| Getty Research, Los Angeles, USA has an ULAN (Union List of Artists Names Online) entry for this photographer. This is useful for checking names and they frequently provide a brief biography. | | Go to website |
The following books are useful starting points to obtain brief biographies but they are not substitutes for the monographs on individual photographers. |
If there is an analysis of a single photograph or a useful self portrait I will highlight it here. |
| "I hope that all my images have or hold in some sense the heroics of confronting life." | | "I‘m trying to humanize the middle-aged and older, to find a new perspective that … [lets] them be a viable part of society. I cannot view life as a tragedy alone." |
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