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Toni Frissell
Antoinette
Frissell
Bacon,
known
as
Toni
Frissell,
was
born
in
New
York
City
in
1907.
She
trained
as
an
actress
and
worked
in
advertising
before
beginning
her
career
in
photography
in
the
early
1930s.
Mostly
self-taught,
Frissell
found
work
at
Vogue
first
as
a
caption
writer,
then
as
a
fashion
photographer.
From
1941
through
1950,
she
worked
for
Harper’s
Bazaar,
but
her
work
for
the
American
Red
Cross
and
later
the
Women’s
Army
Corps
during
World
War
II
encouraged
her
toward
photojournalism.
It
was
her
varied
experiences
and
her
unconventional
background
in
photography
that
led
her
to
bring
models
out... Read More
of
the
studio
and
into
the
outdoors.
Frissell’s
style
felt
fresh,
spontaneous,
and
active
in
a
fashion
world
used
to
large
format
cameras
and
subjects
standing
still.
Her
“action-fashion”
photographs
were
the
beginning
of
a
new
trend
in
postwar
fashion
imagery.
Frissell
eventually
tired
of
fashion
photography,
and
shifted
her
career
into
more
lifestyle
and
sports
work
for
the
likes
of
LIFE,
Look,
Vogue,
and
Sports
Illustrated
until
her
retirement
in
1967.
In
1971,
she
donated
her
photographs
to
the
Library
of
Congress,
making
them
available
to
the
public.
Frissell
died
due
to
complications
from
Alzheimer’s
disease
in
1988,
but
her
legacy
lives
on
in
her
incredible
work.
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