Marilyn Stafford
British photographer
Died when: 97 years 58 days (1165 months)Star Sign: Scorpio
Marilyn Stafford (née Gerson, born 1925) was an American-born British photographer.She worked mainly as a freelance photojournalist based in Paris in the 1950s and early 1960s, then in London, travelling to Lebanon, Tunisia, India and elsewhere.
Her work was published in The Observer and other newspapers.Stafford also worked as a fashion photographer in Paris, where she photographed models in the streets in everyday situations, rather than in the more usual opulent surroundings.
Stafford has published three books of photographs, Silent Stories: A Photographic Journey Through Lebanon in the Sixties (1998);Stories in Pictures: A Photographic Memoir 1950 (2014) of Paris in the 1950s; and Marilyn Stafford: A Life in Photography (2021).
She has had solo exhibitions at the Nehru Centre, London;Arundel Museum;Alliance Française de Toronto;Art Bermondsey Project Space;
Farleys House, East Sussex; and currently has a retrospective at Brighton Museum & Art Gallery, Brighton and Hove, between 22 February and 8 May 2022.
In 2020 she was awarded the Chairman's Lifetime Achievement Award 2019 at the UK Picture Editors' Guild Awards in London.
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