Norman, Dorothy, 1905-1997

Dorothy Norman (1905-1997) was a photographer from New York, N.Y.

From the description of Oral history interview with Dorothy Norman, 1979 May 31-1979 June. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 646397445

Photographer, writer, editor, arts patron, advocate for social change.

From the description of Interview conducted by Oliver Daniel, Mar. 31, 1981 [sound recording]. (University of Pennsylvania Library). WorldCat record id: 155862313

Photographer; New York, N.Y. d. 1997.

From the description of Dorothy Norman interviews, 1979 May 31-1979 June. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122355143

From the description of Dorothy Norman interviews, 1979 May 31-1979 June [sound recording]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 276394239

BIOGHIST REQUIRED Journalist. Dorothy Stecher Norman was active for many years in a wide range of social and political movements.

From the guide to the Dorothy Norman Papers, 1923-1978, (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library, )

d. 1997.

From the description of Artist file : miscellaneous uncataloged material. (Museum of Modern Art (MOMA)). WorldCat record id: 78508195

Dorothy Norman was the editor of Twice A Year, a semiannual journal on literature, the arts and civil liberties.

From the description of Correspondence to Charles Van Wyck Brooks, 1939. (University of Pennsylvania Library). WorldCat record id: 191799987

Journalist.

Dorothy Stecher Norman was active for many years in a wide range of social and political movements.

From the description of Papers, 1923-1978. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 122529072

Dorothy Norman (1905-1997) was an American photographer, writer, editor, arts patron and advocate for social change. Born in Philadelphia, Norman is perhaps best known for her long and intimate relationship with photographer Alfred Stieglitz, whom she met in 1927 and who became her lover and mentor. Stieglitz encouraged Norman in her photography, and her work includes numerous photos of Steiglitz as well as portraits of Lewis Mumford, Theodore Dreiser, John Cage, Jawaharlal Nehru, and Indira Gandhi.

During the 1930s and 1940s the two became involved in various liberal causes, particularly civil rights, education, and independence for India and Israel. Norman was a founding member of New York City's Liberal Party, the American Emergency Food Committee for India, and The American Citizens' Committee for Economic Aid Abroad. She was a member of the Americans for Democratic Action and served on the boards of both the New York Urban League and the National Urban League.

In addition to her social activtism and photography work, Norman wrote a weekly column in The New York Post (1942-1949) and edited and published Twice a Year, (1938-1948), a journal of literature, the arts and civil liberties whose contributors included Richard Wright, Albert Camus, Jean-Paul Sartre and Bertolt Brecht. She wrote or edited numerous books including The Selected Writings of John Marin (1949), Nehru: The First Sixty Years (1965), a two-volume collection of the Indian leader's writings, Alfred Stieglitz: An American Seer (1970), the first full-length biography of the American modernist, Indira Gandhi: Letters to an American Friend (1985), and Encounters: a Memoir (1987).

[Portions of this biographical sketch adapted from "Dorothy Norman, 92, Writer Who Sought Social Change" by Roberta Smith, New York Times, April 14, 1997.]

From the guide to the Dorothy Norman Papers, 1923-1967, (Special Collections Research Center, Syracuse University Libraries)