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HomeContents > People > Photographers > Toni Frissell

Dates:  1907 - 1988
Born:  US, NY, New York
Active:  US
 
  
American fashion photographer. She was also a photojournalist during the Second World War and did a series on the Tuskegee airmen.

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Toni Frissell
Toni Frissell, sitting, holding camera on her lap, with several children standing around her, somewhere in Europe 
1945
 
  
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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.

 
• Beaton, Cecil & Buckland, Gail 1975 The Magic Eye: The Genius of Photography from 1839 to the Present Day (Boston and Toronto: Little, Brown & Company) p.190 [Useful short biographies with personal asides and one or more example images.] 
  
• 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.216 [Includes a well written short biography on Toni Frissell with example plate(s) earlier in book.] 
  
• Lenman, Robin (ed.) 2005 The Oxford Companion to the Photograph (Oxford: Oxford University Press)  [Includes a short biography on Toni Frissell.] 
  

Collections

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

 
Library of Congress, Washington, USA 
  
Approximate number of records: 65 
Note: A single record may contain more than one photograph.
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Quotations

The wit and wisdom.

 
"I‘d rather stalk with a camera than a gun"
 
  
 
  
 
  
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