- Born
- 10 March 1907, New York City, New York, United States
- First work
- 1931 (approx.): Vogue fashion spreads
- Peak
- 1938 to 1948 (estimated)
- Last work
- 1965: The King Ranch, 1939-1944
- Died
- 17 April 1988, St. James, United States; aged 81; illness
Toni Frissell
Photographer: photographer, United States
Toni Frissell was an American photographer celebrated for liberating fashion and portrait imagery from the confines of the indoor studio. Beginning her professional career in the early 1930s with Vogue and Harper's Bazaar, she favoured natural light and dynamic outdoor compositions. During the Second World War, she volunteered for the American Red Cross and the Women's Army Corps, producing sensitive documentation of military nurses and the Tuskegee Airmen in Europe. She later photographed prominent public figures, including the Kennedy family and Winston Churchill. She retired to Long Island, where she died of Alzheimer's disease in April 1988.
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Signature works
- Lady in the Water photograph1947
- Tuskegee Airmen series photograph1945
- Winston Churchill at Blenheim Palace photograph1950
- Mother Goose other1948
- The Happy Island other1946
Groups: Women's Army Corps.