Marion Palfi

Marion Palfi
Born October 21, 1907
Berlin, Germany
Died November 4th, 1978
Los Angeles, California, United States

Marion Palfi (1907–1978) was a German-American social-documentary photographer. Born in Berlin,[1] Palfi was the daughter of German theater designer Victor Palfi and a Polish mother.[2] As a young woman she appeared in at least one film in 1926.

Professionally active in Germany before the war, Palfi married an American and immigrated to the US in 1940. Palfi's career in the U.S. centered on socially conscious themes, for instance the cover of the first issue of Ebony in 1945 and continuing work for that magazine.[3] In her unpublished photo book: There is No More Time: An American Tragedy, Palfi documented racism and segregation in Irwinton, GA, the site of the murder of Caleb Hill, the first reported lynching of 1949.[4] Palfi's 1952 book Suffer Little Children[5] focused on the living condition of disadvantaged children across the U.S., including the young inmates of the New York Training School for Girls. Palfi was a contributing photographer to Edward Steichen's landmark Family of Man exhibition in 1955.

From the mid-1960s to the 1970s, Palfi taught photography in Los Angeles. Institutions where worked included the California Institute of the Arts, the Woman's Building, UCLA Extension, and the Inner City Cultural Center. Palfi was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1967 and a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship in 1974.[6] Palfi's work is archived at the Center for Creative Photography at the University of Arizona in Tucson, Arizona.

Palfi was married to the German-American theatre, radio, and television director Martin Magner from 1954 until her death from breast cancer in 1978.[1]

Photography

Marion Palfi's work centered around equity, opportunity, and justice for all people.[7]

References

  1. 1 2 Rossi, Lorraine. "Palfi, Marion (1907-1978)". Amistad Research Center. Archived from the original on June 30, 2015. Retrieved August 20, 2018.
  2. ↑ "Marion Palfi Bio". Center for Creative Photography.
  3. ↑ Blair, Sara (2007). Harlem Crossroads: Black Writers and the Photograph in the Twentieth Century. Princeton University Press. p. 282. ISBN 0691-13087-6. Archived from the original on August 20, 2018.
  4. ↑ Berger, Maurice (September 17, 2015). "A Meditation on Race in Shades of White". New York Times. Archived from the original on January 12, 2018.
  5. ↑ Palfi, Marion (1952). Suffer little children. New York: Oceana Publications.
  6. ↑ "Palfi, Marion (1907–1978)". North American Women Artists of the Twentieth Century: A Biographical Dictionary. Hoboken: Taylor and Francis. 2013. p. 2332. ISBN 1-135-63889-6.
  7. ↑ Palfi, Marion. "Center for Creative Photography".
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