(1912–1985)
Marjory Collins was an American photojournalist. It is particularly noted for its coverage of the home front, or interior front, during World War II. Born on 15 March 1912 in New York City, she was the daughter of Elizabeth Everts Paine and writer Frederick Lewis Collins. Grew up near Scarsdale, Westchester County.
Died in 1985 in San Francisco at the age of 73.
Educated at Sweet Briar College and the University of Munich. In 1935, Collins moved to Greenwich Village, and for the next five years studied photography informally with Ralph Steiner and attended Photo League activities. In the 1980s he moved to San Francisco where he earned an M.A. in American Studies at Antioch College West.
Her work as a documentary photographer was commissioned and controlled by major agencies. Following a contribution to U.S. Camera and Travel about Hoboken, New Jersey, she was invited to work for the Foreign Service of the United States War Information Bureau. Completed about 50 story assignments on the American way of life and support for the war effort. In line with the new emphasis on multiculturalism, it contributed to photographic coverage of African-Americans as well as citizens of Czech, German, Italian and Jewish origin.
In 1944 Collins worked as a freelancer for a construction company in Alaska before traveling to Africa and Europe on government and commercial assignments. Subsequently she worked mainly as an editor and writer, covering civil rights, the war in Vietnam and women’s movements. Edited the American Journal of Public Health in the 1960s. Collins was very politically active; feminist, she founded the magazine Prime Time (1971-76) “for the liberation of women in the prime of life.” In 1977, Collins became an associate of the Women’s Institute for Freedom of the Press.
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