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Marion Post Wolcott was born on 7 June, 1910 in Montclair, New Jersey, U.S., is an American photographer. Discover Marion Post Wolcott's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is she in this year and how she spends money? Also learn how she earned most of networth at the age of 80 years old?

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Occupation Photographer for the Farm Security Administration
Age 80 years old
Zodiac Sign Gemini
Born 7 June 1910
Birthday 7 June
Birthplace Montclair, New Jersey, U.S.
Date of death 24 November, 1990
Died Place Santa Barbara, California, U.S.
Nationality United States

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1910

Marion Post Wolcott (June 7, 1910 – November 24, 1990) was an American photographer who worked for the Farm Security Administration during the Great Depression, documenting poverty, the Jim Crow South, and deprivation.

Marion Post was born in Montclair, New Jersey on June 7, 1910, to Marion ( Hoyt; known as "Nan") and Walter Post, a physician.

She grew up in the family home in Bloomfield, the younger of two daughters in the Post family.

Her parents divorced when she was thirteen 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.

Post 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 Post showed Fleischmann some of her photographs and was told to stick to photography.

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 photography division of the Farm Security Administration, and Paul Strand wrote a letter of recommendation.

Stryker was impressed by her work and hired her immediately.

Post's photographs for the FSA often explore the political aspects of poverty and deprivation.

They also often find humour in the situations she encountered.

1941

In 1941 she met Leon Oliver Wolcott, deputy director of war relations for the U.S. Department of Agriculture under Franklin Roosevelt.

1942

They married, and Marion Post Wolcott continued her assignments for the FSA, but resigned shortly thereafter in February 1942.

Wolcott found it difficult to fit in her photography around raising a family and a great deal of traveling and living overseas.

1970

In the 1970s, a renewed interest in Post Wolcott's images among scholars rekindled her own interest in photography.

1978

In 1978, Wolcott mounted her first solo exhibition in California, and by the 1980s the Smithsonian and the Metropolitan Museum of Art began to collect her photographs.

1983

The first monograph on Marion Post Wolcott's work was published in 1983.

1986

Wolcott was an advocate for women's rights; in 1986, Wolcott said: "Women have come a long way, but not far enough. . . . Speak with your images from your heart and soul" (Women in Photography Conference, Syracuse, N.Y.).

Post Wolcott's work is archived at the Library of Congress and the Center for Creative Photography at the University of Arizona in Tucson, Arizona.

1990

Post Wolcott died of lung cancer in Santa Barbara, California, on November 24, 1990.

All photographs are by Marion Post Wolcott.