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Home > Contents > People > Photographers > Marion Post Wolcott

Dates:  1910 - 1990
Born:  US, NJ, Montclair
Active:  US
Gender:  Female
 
  
Freelance photographer who worked with the Farm Security Administration (FSA) and traveled globally creating documentary images.

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Biography provided by Focal Press 
  
A courageous social documentarian, Post Wolcott’s short photographic career is highlighted by her three years photographing for the Farm Security Administration (FSA). Strand and Steiner, friends from the New York Photo League, introduced her to Roy Stryker, Director of the FSA’s photography project who hired her to join the project from 1938 through 1941. Her growing social awareness was fueled by her encounters with race and class inequality in the pre-war rural South; with humor and pathos, her photographs often explore the politics of poverty. 
  
(Author: Garie Waltzer - Photographer and consultant) 
  
Michael Peres (Editor-in-Chief), 2007, Focal Encyclopedia of Photography, 4th edition, (Focal Press) [ISBN-10: 0240807405, ISBN-13: 978-0240807409] 
(Used with permission) 
  

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General reading 
  
Fisher, Andrea, 1987, Let Us Now Praise Famous Women: women photographers for the US Government, 1935 to 1944, (Pandora Press) isbn-10: 0863581234 isbn-13: 978-0863581236 [LL_REF:1885] 
  
 
  
Readings on, or by, individual photographers 
  
Alinder, J. (ed.), Wolcott, M. P., & Stein, S., 1983, Marion Post Wolcott: FSA Photographs, (San Francisco: Friends of Photography) [LL_REF:1616] 
  
Hendrickson, Paul, 1992, Looking for the Light: The Hidden Life and Art of Marion Post Wolcott, (New York: Alfred A. Knopf) [LL_REF:873] 
  
Hurley, F Jack, 1989, Marion Post Wolcott: A Photographic Journey, (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press) [LL_REF:872] 
  
Hurley, F. J., 1989, Marion Post Wolcott, A Photographic Journey, (Albuquerque, NM: University of New Mexico Press) [LL_REF:1617] 
  
Prose, Francine, 2008, Fields of Vision: The Photographs of Marion Post Wolcott: The Library of Congress, (D Giles Ltd) isbn-10: 1904832415 isbn-13: 978-1904832416 [LL_REF:1874] 
  
 
  
If you feel this list is missing a significant book or article please let me know - Alan - alan@luminous-lint.com 		 
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Marion Post Wolcott 
1940, January 
  
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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
 

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Marion Post Wolcott 
http://memory.loc.gov ... 
  
Marion Post Wolcott 
http://www.people.virginia.edu ... 
Edited by her daughter Linda Wolcott-Moore of Ojai California (USA) 
  
 

Printed biographies

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

 
• Evans, Martin Marix (Executive ed.) 1995 Contemporary Photographers [Third Edition] (St. James Press - An International Thomson Publishing Company) [Expensive reference work but highly informative.] 
  
• 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.232 [Includes a well written short biography on Marion Post Wolcott with example plate(s) earlier in book.] 
  
• Witkin, Lee D. and Barbara London 1979 The Photograph Collector’s Guide (London: Secker and Warburg) p.275 [Long out of print but an essential reference work - the good news is that a new edition is in preparation.] 
  
 

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.) [Marion Post Wolcott is included in this overview of women photographers.] 
  

Collections

Photographic collections are a useful means of examining large numbers of photographs by a single photographer on-line. 
  

 
In the 1990 survey of 535 American photographic collections Marion Post Wolcott was represented in 49 of the collections. Source: Andrew H. Eskind & Greg Drake (eds.) 1990 Index to American Photographic Collections [Second Enlarged Edition] (Boston, Massachusetts: G.K. Hall & Co.) 
  
 
  
 
  
 
  
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