Marianne Greenwood (1916–2006) was a Swedish photographer and author.
Biography
Greenwood was born Marianne Hederström in
Gällivare,
and raised in
Kiruna
(; se, Giron ; fi, Kiiruna ) is the northernmost Stad (Sweden), city in Sweden, situated in the province of Lapland, Sweden, Lapland. It had 17,002 inhabitants in 2016 and is the seat of Kiruna Municipality (population: 23,167 in 2016) in Norr ...
and
Skellefteå, all in northern Sweden.
Before the end of World War II Greenwood moved to
Stockholm
Stockholm () is the Capital city, capital and List of urban areas in Sweden by population, largest city of Sweden as well as the List of urban areas in the Nordic countries, largest urban area in Scandinavia. Approximately 980,000 people liv ...
and studied at
the art school of design.
She then moved to Switzerland and the hotel school in
Lausanne, and subsequently moved to
Antibes
Antibes (, also , ; oc, label=Provençal dialect, Provençal, Antíbol) is a coastal city in the Alpes-Maritimes Departments of France, department of southeastern France, on the French Riviera, Côte d'Azur between Cannes and Nice.
The town of ...
where she became the "in-house photographer" for the
Musée Picasso
:''This article refers to the museum in Paris. There are a number of other Picasso museums.''
The Musée Picasso ( en, Picasso Museum) is an art gallery located in the Hôtel Salé ( en, Salé Hall) in rue de Thorigny, in the Marais district ...
,
photographing
Picasso
Pablo Ruiz Picasso (25 October 1881 – 8 April 1973) was a Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist and Scenic design, theatre designer who spent most of his adult life in France. One of the most influential artists of the 20th ce ...
and his family and visitors such as
Matisse
Henri Émile Benoît Matisse (; 31 December 1869 – 3 November 1954) was a French visual artist, known for both his use of colour and his fluid and original draughtsmanship. He was a draughtsman, printmaker, and sculptor, but is known prima ...
,
Chagall
Marc Chagall; russian: link=no, Марк Заха́рович Шага́л ; be, Марк Захаравіч Шагал . (born Moishe Shagal; 28 March 1985) was a Russian-French artist. An early modernism, modernist, he was associated with se ...
,
Miró, and
Léger. The authors
Anais Nin,
Robert Graves
Captain Robert von Ranke Graves (24 July 1895 – 7 December 1985) was a British poet, historical novelist and critic. His father was Alfred Perceval Graves, a celebrated Irish poet and figure in the Gaelic revival; they were both Celtic ...
and
Chester Himes were among her close friends. In Los Angeles she was also a friend of the film director
Fritz Lang.
She began a friendship with
Evert Taube, the Swedish national troubadour and poet. For several decades she lived with indigenous people in the Americas, the Pacific Islands, in Papua New Guinea and parts of Asia.
30,000 of her photographs from this era are archived in the Ethnographical Museum in Stockholm.
Greenwood wrote and photographed for books and magazines in France, Germany, the United States, Sweden and other countries, and published books of her own work.
In 2005 Greenwood received a
Women of Discovery Award
The Women of Discovery Awards are given by the non-profit WINGS WorldQuest, in recognition of the achievements of women in science and exploration.
The awards were first presented in 2003, the same year that WINGS WorldQuest was formed by Milbry ...
for Lifetime Achievement from Wings Worldquest
in New York.
In later years Greenwood lived in Antibes, France. She is buried in Stockholm, Sweden.
A documentary film about Greenwood entitled "Catch the Moment" premiered in 2008, and has been broadcast on public service television in Denmark, Iceland, Norway and Sweden.
Publications
* "The Tattooed Heart of Livingstone" by Marianne Greenwood, (
Stein & Day New York 1965, W.H. Allen London 1965)
* "Reise in meinem Adreßbuch" (German) Text & photo by Marianne Greenwood, (Rowohlt Hamburg 1991)
* "Mein Indianischer Sommer" (German) Text & photo by Marianne Greenwood. (Bertelsmann München 1975)
* "Vignette pour les vignerons" (French) Text Jacques Prévert, Photo Marianne Greenwood, Illustrations Françoise Gilot. (Falaize Paris 1951 Crédit Agricole 1993)
* "Picasso à Musée d'Antibes" (French) Text André Verdet, Photo Marianne Greenwood (Falaize Paris 1954)
* "Picasso in Antibes" Text Dor de la Souchère, Photo Marianne Greenwood (Lund Humphries London, Hazan Paris, Prestel Verlag Munich, Pantheon Books New York 1960
* "Mexico by Erwin Fieger" Text Marianne Greenwood, Photo Erwin Fieger (Accidentia Verlag Düsseldorf 1974, Universe Books New York 1974)
* "Varför gråter puman?" (Why the Puma Cries) (Swedish, Norwegian and Finnish) Text and photo Marianne Greenwood (Trevi Stockholm 1984, Bra Böcker Höganäs 1984)
References
Further reading
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External links
Photocollection 1043 at Museum of Ethnography, Stockholm Wingsquest Foundation, New YorkEvert TaubeRobert Graves ResourcesAntibes
Catch the Moment a documentary about Marianne Greenwood (Filmkommentaren.dk April 5, 2008)
Woman of Discovery: Marianne Greenwood(Seeking Solutions with Suzanne on CNN 2005)
(Riviera Times Feb. 6 2006)
Muere Marianne Greenwood, fotógrafa de Picasso(Globovision.com Venezuela Feb. 4 2006)
* "The Several Lives of Chester Himes" by Edward Margolies & Michel Fabre (Greenwood Press, 1997) p. 122
Marianne Greenwood Hederstrom web page
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1916 births
2006 deaths
Swedish photographers
Swedish women photographers
20th-century women photographers
20th-century Swedish women
Swedish expatriates in Switzerland