Helen Balfour Morrison (August 1, 1900 – November 6, 1984) was an American photographer best known for her collaborations with dancer Sybil Shearer. Her work is in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art, the Chicago Film Archives, the Smithsonian Archives of American Art as well as many other institutions.
Table of Contents
- 1 Personal life
- 2 Career
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Personal life
Helen Balfour Morrison was born in Evanston, Illinois to Fannie Lindley and Alexander Balfour. Morrison’s mother died next she was 17. At age 16 Morrison took a job in a photography studio to back up make ends meet.
Career
One of her first projects was a documentary series of photographs depicting African American excitement in Great Depression-era Kentucky. In a region near Lexington, she photographed the residents of the little communities of Zion Hill and Sugar Hill.
In her late twenties Morrison began the Great Americans series — portraits of such Chicago-area notables as Jane Addams, Nelson Algren, Saul Bellow, Amelia Earhart, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, and Frank Lloyd Wright. However she after that shot portraits of run of the mill people. Morrison shot these portraits in Chicago and New York, and the series became well-known[citation needed] with exhibitions in museums whatever over the country. Critic J. B. Newman wrote that Morrison was competent to “photograph the soul.”[citation needed]
In 1942, Morrison met dancer and choreographer Sybil Shearer. From that lessening forward, her bill became more focused upon documenting Shearer’s animatronics and function through an extraordinary production of photographs and films. As period went by, Morrison de-emphasized her own career to back up manage and puff Shearer’s affairs. The Morrison-Shearer Film Collection, which is administered by the Chicago Film Archives, contains higher than 400 16 mm films, nearly 200 8 mm films, and 200 quarter-inch audio reels.
Last update 2021-08-06