Papers of Marion Palfi, 1920-1983.

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Papers of Marion Palfi, 1920-1983.

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The bulk of this collection documents her activities as a photographer, teacher, researcher, and social critic during the period from 1945 to 1978. There is little documentation of her first career in Germany as an actress, model, and dancer. The correspondence contains letters, telegrams, and postcards between Palfi and friends, photographers, scholars, writers, publishers, and governmental and private institutions. Subjects include personal matters, her philosophy of using photography to influence social change, her sales of photographs, and her efforts to publish her works. The activity files contain correspondence, brochures, handwritten and typed manuscripts, articles, books, catalogs, clippings, resumes, scrapbooks, course outlines, reference notes, and other items relating to biographical material about Palfi, her exhibitions from 1945 to 1983, photography courses taught by her in New York and Los Angeles, miscellaneous reference files, and publications which featured her from 1932 to 1983.

54 linear ft.

University of Arizona Libraries

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SNAC Resource ID: 7782628

University of Arizona Libraries

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