Marilyn Silverstone was an English photographer born in London in 1929. She began to photograph as a freelancer in 1955 and spent time working in Asia, Africa, Europe, the Soviet Union and Central America. After a three-month assignment in India in 1959, Silverstone moved to New Dehli and lived there for fifteen years. Her photographs have been seen on the pages of Newsweek, Life, Vogue and National Geographic. Marilyn Silverstone passed away in October 1999.
What intrigued me most about Ms. Silverstone was the following quote listed on her Magnum page:
"A photograph is a subjective impression. It is what the photographer sees. No matter how hard we try to get into the skin, into the feeling of the subject or situation, however much we empathize, it is still what we see that comes out in the images, it is our reaction to the subject and in the end, the whole corpus of our work becomes a portrait of ourselves."
Allison Garlick
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