Toni Frissell

Toni Frissell ( born March 10, 1907 in Manhattan, † April 17, 1988 in Long Iceland, actually: Antoinette Frissell Bacon) was an American photographer. She is best known for her photos for magazines such as Vogue, Harper 's Bazaar and Life and Sports Illustrated, but also for the images that she photographed during the Second World War for the U.S. military. She was the first photographer for Sports Illustrated.

Life

Antoinette Frissell came in 1907 as the youngest of three children of the physician Lewis Fox Frissell and Antoinette Wood Montgomery to the world. She was a great-granddaughter of U.S. Governor John Phelps and the granddaughter of Algernon Sydney Frissell, founder of the Fifth Avenue Bank.

In 1931 she was awarded by the then owner, Condé Montrose Nast ( 1873-1942 ), a position as a writer of descriptive texts in the fashion magazine Vogue. However, since she had trouble with the spelling, she lost the place again soon. Carmel Snow (1887-1961), a fashion editor of the magazine, but gave her a second chance as a photographer. Frissell Although never studied photography, but learned a lot about photography with her brother Varick Frissell (1903-1931), a filmmaker, and the photographers Cecil Beaton and Edward Steichen. Her fashion photos created a stir as they also made recordings with evening clothes outdoors, instead of the photos, as usual at this point to make in a studio. By 1942, their fashion photographs published by Vogue, then she moved to Harper 's Bazaar.

During the Second World War she went to work as a photographer in 1941 volunteered for the American Red Cross. Later worked for the U.S. 8th Air Force and became the official photographer of the Women's Army Corps. Under this activity, she was also twice on the European front. Your photos of servicemen and African-American pilots were used in a campaign of Franklin D. Roosevelt in order to improve the negative image of women in uniform and blacks in the military.

Their frequent absence in the service of the military and various magazines led to family frictions. Was Frissell with the stockbroker Francis McNeil Bacon (1899-1982) married and mother of a daughter, Sidney Bacon Stafford, and a son, Varick Bacon, however, were largely brought up by a nanny. Her father brought Toni Firssell finally to spend in the 1940s more time at home. During this period several children's books, which she illustrated.

1953 Toni Frissell was the official photographer for the wedding of Jacqueline Bouvier and John F. Kennedy.

Beginning of the 1970s Toni Frissell ill with Alzheimer's. She donated then all her pictures, a collection of about 300,000 images, the Library of Congress, and began work on a biography. On April 17, 1988, she finally died at age 81 years in a nursing home in St. James on Long Iceland.

332nd Fighter Group ( Tuskeege Airmen ), Italy, March 1945

Lilli Palmer and Rex Harrison, 1950

Michael Todd, 1952

Winston Churchill with his son Randolph Churchill Frederick and grandson Winston Spencer Churchill, 1953

Works

• Robert Louis Stevenson (Author ), Toni Frissell ( illustrator): A child's garden of verses. U.S. Camera Publishing Corporation, New York, 1944.
• Sally Lee Woodall (Author ), Toni Frissell ( Illustrator ): Bermuda: The Happy Iceland. U.S. Camera Publishing Corporation, New York, 1946.
• Toni Frissell 's Mother Goose. Harper & Brothers, New York 1948.
• Frank Goodwyn (Author ), Toni Frissell ( Illustrator ): Life on the King Ranch. In 1965. ISBN 978-0890965696