Post Office in Blizzard, Aspen, Colorado
Catalogue
- Year
- 1941
- Medium
- Gelatin silver print
- Dimensions
- Image: 22.2 × 30.2 cm (8 3/4 × 11 15/16 in.); Paper: 27.8 × 35.4 cm (11 × 13 15/16 in.)
- Collection
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Artist
- Marion Post Wolcott
Artist
Photography
Marion Post Wolcott was an American photographer who documented rural and working-class life in the American South and Midwest during the 1930s and 1940s. Working primarily in black-and-white for the Farm Security Administration, she captured portraits of farmers, sharecroppers, and industrial workers with unflinching directness and compositional precision. Her photographs privilege the dignity and individuality of her subjects over sociological abstraction, creating a visual record of Depression-era America that remains formally rigorous alongside its documentary purpose.
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Record
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- Marion Post Wolcott
- Year
- 1941
- Medium
- Gelatin silver print
- Dimensions
- Image: 22.2 × 30.2 cm (8 3/4 × 11 15/16 in.); Paper: 27.8 × 35.4 cm (11 × 13 15/16 in.)
- Watts ID
- WW-1941-025384
Source
- Collection
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Source
- aic
- Reference
- View at source
- Status
- verified