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Home > Contents > People > Photographers > Dorothy Norman

Names:
Other: Dorothy S. Norman 
Dates:  1905 - 1997
Born:  US, PA, Philadelphia
Active:  US
Gender:  Female
 
  
Still-lifes and intimate portraits. She was the lover of Alfred Stieglitz and worked closely with him and continued to promote his vision in her writings.

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Alfred Stieglitz
Portrait of Dorothy Norman 
1931 (ca)
 
  
Family history 
  
If you are related to this photographer and interested in tracking down your extended family we can place a note here for you to help. It is free and you would be amazed who gets in touch. 
  
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Internet biographies

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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
 

Printed biographies

The following books are useful starting points to obtain brief biographies but they are not substitutes for the monographs on individual photographers.

 
• International Center of Photography 1999 Reflections in a Glass Eye: Works from the International Center of Photography Collection (New York: A Bulfinch Press Book) p.223 [Includes a well written short biography on Dorothy Norman with example plate(s) earlier in book.] 
  
 

Useful printed stuff

If there is an analysis of a single photograph or a useful self portrait I will highlight it here.

 
• Lahs-Gonzales, Olivia & Lippard, Lucy 1997 Defining Eye: Women Photographers of the 20th Century. Selections from the Helen Kornblum Collection (Saint Louis Art Museum, D.A.P.) [Dorothy Norman is included in this overview of women photographers.] 
  
 
  
 
  
 
  
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