The first ever retrospective exhibition of US photographer, Marilyn Stafford (b.1925), launches this year, encompassing the most comprehensive display of the photographer’s work to date. Works come from an international archive spanning four decades, and include celebrity portraits, fashion shoots, street photography, humanitarian stories and newspaper reportage.
This exhibition, A Life in Photography, will tour institutions in the UK between August 2021 and November 2022, providing a reflective and engaging look at a period of 20th century history through the photographer’s unique gaze. It will feature many of the stories from her career, which remain untold, with images never seen before by the public.
An accompanying retrospective book of her work Marilyn Stafford: A Life in Photography will be available from www.bluecoatpress.co.uk from October 2021, including an essay by Jennifer Higgie.
Marilyn Stafford’s photography career got off to a remarkable start when she was invited, as a young woman, to take stills of Albert Einstein. Since then, she has accumulated an eclectic body of work, spanning from 1948-1980, including further portraits of famous and influential figures such as Edith Piaf, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Mulk Raj Anand, Indira Gandhi, Albert Finney, Twiggy and Joanna Lumley. She has also photographed many ordinary people like the illiterate Sicilian peasant woman, Francesca Serio, who took the Mafia to trial for murdering her son.
More information : https://www.marilynstaffordphotography.com
LISTINGS
Farleys House and Galleries: 12 August - 31 October 2021.
Brighton Museum and Art Gallery: 26 Feb - 8 May 2022
Dimbola Museum and Galleries: 15 June - 17 September 2022
Girl with milk bottle, Cité Lesage-Bullourde, Paris, c1950
Twiggy, press call, London, 1960
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