PHOTOGRAPHER MARION POST WOLCOTT, THE CROTON CONNECTION, HESSIAN HILLS

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PHOTOGRAPHER MARION POST WOLCOTT, THE CROTON CONNECTION

While doing some research on a related topic, the Elves and I came across this:

Marion Post Wolcott is best known for the more than 9,000 photographs she produced for the Farm Security Administration (FSA) from 1938 to 1942......(CLICK ON THE PHOTO.)

In late 1934, Wolcott moved to Croton-on-Hudson to teach at the progressive Hessian Hills School. She made portraits of her students and photographs for the school brochure and also earned to print her own negatives. She went out photographing on her own, as well, making photographs of mine workers in Pittsburgh.

Wolcott attended lectures about photography in New York City at the Photo League which provided instruction in film and photography to reflect the daily lives of ordinary American workers." Impressed by Wolcott's work there, Paul Strand and Ralph Steiner invited her to join a group of young photographers who met at Steiner's apartment for informal discussions.. She developed close friendships with members of the Group Theatre, a small, reality-based drama company begun in New York in 1931. Wrapped in blankets in winter, she commuted in her drafty car between Croton-on-Hudson and the couches of her actors friends on weekends. They became the subjects of her first published photographs, in Stage Magazine.  READ AND SEE MUCH MORE AT https://www.loc.gov/rr/print/coll/womphotoj/wolcottessay.html

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