Mary Morris Lawrence
PDN Pulse highlighted the end of Mary Morris Lawrence’s obituary which made me want to find out more about her “…In lieu of flowers, Mary would ask you to join the League of Women Voters, shop at Farmer Joes, write a letter to the editor, or break a glass ceiling!”
Check out some of these links for more information about one of, if not the, first female photographers for the Associated Press:
Obituary – included an inspiring list of activities she had taken part in this, her 95th year.
The San Francisco Chronicle also had an article on Morris Lawrence which included a photo of her from her days with the AP.
Oakland Tribune 2007 interview (note – link is to article, but not on Tribune’s site)
Oakland Tribune article re: death. I liked this bit “…In his 1938 book, “Get That Picture!” cameraman A.J. Ezickson described her as a hard worker and a cunning “scout,” gaining access with her small RolleiFlex camera to? scenes her less enterprising colleagues (the same ones who made “sly jibes” about Morris Lawrence) were barred from by using her wits but never “feminine wiles.”…”
Found some of her images online – hopefully the usage was with her consent – Ronpendorf.com and then click next at the bottom – on the first page, I particularly like the first two images; the Orson Welles photo mentioned in one of the above links appears on page 2, the shot of Eleanor Roosevelt on page 3 adds to my wish for captions as it is not self-explanatory, Ingrid Bergman at the bottom of page 4 looks so different from the somewhat dour image in my head.
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I’ll just keep adding more links at the bottom of this post as I find them:
More info on her first marriage to photographer Ralph Steiner from a friend’s daughter Liza Cowan
