Toni Frissell
"id rather stalk a camera than a gun"
Toni Frissell was born in New York City on March 10, 1907 to Lewis Fox Frissell and Antoinette Wood Frissell. She was known for her World War II photographs and fashion in photography. Frissell graduated from Miss Porter's School, Farmington, Connecticut. She worked as a caption writer for American Vogue in 1930, where she was encouraged by editor Carmel Snow to experiment with photography. Her first photographs, the series called "Beauties at Newport", were published in 1931. From then on she began working for Vogue for the next eleven years. Frissell married Francis McNeil Bacon III in 1932. In 1933, she had a son named Varick, and in 1935 she had a daughter named Sidney. Frissell was recognized with the ward of distinctived Merit for the fashion photograph "the floating boat". She wanted people in centuries to come to observe a segment of society as it was lived; a record of a vanished way of life. frissell died in saint James, New York in 1988.
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