Constance Stuart Larrabee
Constance Stuart Larrabee | |
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Born | Constance Stuart 7 August 1914 Cornwall, England |
Died | 27 July 2000 Chestertown, Maryland | (aged 85)
Constance Stuart Larrabee (7 August 1914 – 27 July 2000) was an English photographer best known for her images of South Africa and her photo-journalism on Europe during World War II. She was South Africa's first female war correspondent.
Early life
Constance Stuart was born on 7 August 1914, in Cornwall, England, and moved to Cape Town, South Africa with her parents when she was three months old. She lived on a tin mine in the northern Transvaal, where her father was a mining engineer.[1][2]
Her family moved to
Stuart returned to England in 1933 to study at the
Career
On her return to South Africa in 1936 she established the Constance Stuart Portrait Studio in Pretoria. She became a renowned portraitist, and photographed many of the leading statesmen, generals, artists, writers, society and theatrical personalities of that period. In 1946 she opened a second studio in Johannesburg.[4]
Between 1937 and 1949 Stuart developed her lifelong interest in recording and exhibiting the vanishing ethnic cultures of South Africa: the
Although she was not permitted to keep a diary on the front, she compiled her photographic notes and letters into a memoir named Jeep Trek,[5] published in 1946.[8]
When she returned to South Africa in 1945 she travelled throughout the country exhibiting many of these photographs, as well as her depictions of South African tribal people. In 1948, the National Party came to power in South Africa and instituted a policy of strict racial segregation. The following year, Stuart left South Africa for America.[7]
Later years
While Stuart was living in
While living in Chestertown she established a long association with Washington College. She supported its arts programs, was Chairwoman of the Washington College Friends of the Arts 1983–1984, and helped establish the Constance Stuart Larrabee Arts Center.[9]
Her husband died in 1975. Constance Stuart Larrabee died on 27 July 2000 at her home in Chestertown, aged 85.[10]
Selected exhibitions
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- 1944 – The Malay Quarter. Opened by Noël Coward in Pretoria.
- 1945 – A Tribute: South African 6th Division and the United States 7th Army. Travelled throughout South Africa.
- 1953 – Tribal Women of South Africa. The American Museum of Natural History in New York.
- 1955 – Group exhibition: her photograph of a young African girl painting her face is included by Edward Steichen in The Family of Man. Museum of Modern Art in New York.
- 1979 – Photographs by Constance Stuart Larrabee, A Retrospective. The South African National Gallery, Cape Town.
- 1982 – Celebration on the Chesapeake. Washington College in Chestertown, Maryland.
- 1984 – Tribal Photographs. Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington, DC, and the Santa Fe Centre for Photography in New Mexico.
- 1985 – Group exhibition: The Indelible Image: Photographs of War 1846 to the Present. The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Travelled to The Grey Art Gallery, New York University, New York and The Rice Museum, Houston, Texas.
- 1986 – Group exhibition: Bon Voyage. The Cooper-Hewitt Museum of the Smithsonian Institution, New York.
- 1988 – African Profile. Bayly Art Museum of the University of Virginia.
- 1989 – Constance Stuart Larrabee: WWII Photo Journal. The National Museum of Women in the Arts in Washington, DC.
- 1993 – Chesapeake Bay Reflections. The Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum in St. Michaels, Maryland.
- 1993 – Witness to a World at War. The Defence Intelligence Agency, Bolling Air Force Base in Washington, DC.
- 1993 – Group exhibition: Great Women in Photography. The Kathleen Ewing Gallery in Washington, DC.
References
- ^ "Constance Stuart Larrabee". africa.si.edu. Retrieved 6 December 2015.
- ^ ISBN 0-940979-08-X.
- ^ a b c "Constance Stuart Larrabee". sahistory.org.za. Retrieved 6 December 2015.
- ^ ASIN B00A8O2AC4.
- ^ ISBN 0-940979-08-X.
- ^ Bartelik, Marek (1996). "Constance Stuart Larrabee". Artforum International. 34.
- ^ a b c "A woman's stark images from the front Photography: Through her camera, Constance Stuart Larrabee captured, in turn, the horror, heartbreak and heroics of war. Now her photos are on view at the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington". tribunedigital-baltimoresun. 9 September 1998. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 6 December 2015.
- ISBN 9780313291715.
- OCLC 1066066604.)
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Further reading
- Constance, Larrabee (1995). Constance Stuart Larrabee: Time Exposure. New Haven: Yale Center for British Art. ISBN 978-0930606763.
- Elliott, Peter (2018). Constance: One Road to take: The Life and Photography of Constance Stuart Larrabee (1914–2000). Cantaloup Press. ISBN 978-1720258063.
- Williams, Jessica R. "A Pariah Among Parvenus: Anne Fischer and the Politics of South Africa's New Realism(s)". October 173 (Summer 2020): 143-175.