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ДЕНЬ В ИСТОРИИ ФОТОГРАФИИ
 | | Marcella «Marcey» Jacobson (27 September 1911 – 26 July 2009) was an American photographer who moved to Chiapas, Mexico in the 1950s, and was best known for her photographs of the indigenous peoples of Southern Mexico. [27.9.1911] | | Marcella Jacobson was born on September 27, 1911, in the Bronx. She had been on her first trip to Mexico and was in Taxco when she first heard of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, and she promptly returned to New York by bus. She saw a sign on a streetcar advertising government-funded courses and decided to take up drafting. She first worked as a draftsman for Emerson Radio on a top-secret Radar development project and worked on the designs of various industrial equipment in the ensuing years.
In Mexico Marcella Jacobson borrowed a Rolleiflex camera and taught herself how to take and develop photographs, using how-to books as a source of instruction. The bulk of her 14,000 negatives represented photos of everyday life, providing details of the business and religious practices of local people, taken in the marketplace and along its narrow streets, and also individuals and landscapes. She would ask Americans coming to the area to bring the photographic chemicals and paper she needed to print her photos.
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