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马里恩 波斯特 沃尔科特

FSA的著名摄影师。
从小和母亲生活在一起，在寄宿学校。参加过社会运动，反对纳粹。
想成为老师。后来遇到了她妹妹helen的摄影老师，并得到了鼓励。
后来战乱搬家，在纽约遇到了大牛 Ralph Steiner 和Paul Strand。Paul Strand给 Roy Stryker 写推荐信，所以，她开始了FSA的拍摄，“ladies’ stories”。
与某人结婚，开始幸福的妇女生活。不过，她用摄影支撑一家生活。
评论说，她的照片给FSA带了了清新的诚意。也许就是当年的小清新路线。

“As an FSA documentary photographer, I was committed to changing the attitudes of people by familiarizing America with the plight of the underprivileged, especially in rural America…  FSA photographs shocked and aroused public opinion to increase support for the New Deal policies and projects, and played an important part in the social revolution of the 30s” said Marion Post Wolcott.
作为FSA的纪实摄影师，我致力于改变对处于贫困境地的，人们所熟悉的美国看法，尤其是乡村美国。FSA的图片可以震惊和唤醒民意支持罗斯福的新政，并且是30年代社会改革中的重要组成部分。

said Marion Post Wolcott.
原谅我蹩脚的英语翻译吧。

Marion Post (later Marion Post Wolcott) (June 7, 1910 – November 24, 1990) was a noted photographer  who worked for the Farm Security Administration during the Great Depression documenting poverty and deprivation. She was born in New Jersey. Her parents split up and she was sent to boarding school, spending time at home with her mother in Greenwich Village when not at school. Here she met many artists and musicians and became interested in dance. She studied at The New School.

She trained as a teacher, and went to work in a small town in Massachusetts. Here she saw the reality of the Depression and the problems of the poor. When the school closed she went to Europe to study with her sister Helen. Helen was studying with Trude Fleischmann, a Viennese photographer. Marion showed Flieschmann some of her photographs and was told to stick to photography.
A juke joint located in Belle Glade, Florida. Photographed by Marion Post Wolcott in 1944.

While in Vienna she saw some of the Nazi attacks on the Jewish population and was horrified. Soon she and her sister had to return to America for safety. She went back to teaching but also continued her photography and became involved in the anti-fascist movement. At the New York Photo League she met Ralph Steiner and Paul Strand who encouraged her. When she found that the Philadelphia Evening Bulletin kept sending her to do “ladies’ stories,” Ralph Steiner took her portfolio to show Roy Stryker, head of the Farm Security Administration, and Paul Strand wrote a letter of recommendation. Stryker was impressed by her work and hired her immediately.

Her photographs for the FSA often explore the political aspects of poverty and deprivation. They also often find humour in the situations she encountered. Her work is some of the finest in the extensive archive.

In 1941 she met Lee Wolcott. When she had finished her assignments for the FSA she married him, and later had to fit in her photography around raising a family and a great deal of travelling and living overseas.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/library_of_congress/2179038448/in/set-72157603671370361/  flickr上收集的FSA 30年代的彩色照片

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marion_Post_Wolcott

http://people.virginia.edu/~ds8s/mpw/mpw-bio.html

http://www.aaa.si.edu/collections/oralhistories/transcripts/wolcot65.htm  口述历史

个人网站

http://people.virginia.edu/~ds8s/mpw/p-fsa/family/family.html

http://people.virginia.edu/~ds8s/mpw/mpw-fsa1.html

关键词: FSA 摄影家

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