#Marilyn Silverstone

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Kindergarten Playtime in a Girl’s School. Gangtok, Sikkim, India. 1960

Photo: Marilyn Silverstone

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The Hasidic district, Jerusalem, Israel. 1956.

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(these don’t belong to me)

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Ph Marilyn Silverstone Girl’s School. Gangtok, Sikkim, India. 1960

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MARILYN SILVERSTONE - PORTRAITS WITHIN THE SPACE

British choreographer Frederick William Mallandaine Ashton. London, England. 1956. Marilyn Silverstone.

Marilyn Silverstone, born in London in 1929, seemed destined to pursue a life forever in relation to the camera. Daughter of Murray Silverstone, the polish immigrant “rose to become managing director, and president, international, respectively, of United Artists and 20th-Century Fox, working with Charlie Chaplin and other early film stars in London.” As biographed by all-about-photo.com, Silverstone grew up in New York with the connections needed to become an associate editor for Art News, Industrial Design and Interiors after graduating from Wellesley College, however she soon set her sights to new horizons.

Pursuing photojournalism in 1955, Silverstone would travel all across Europe, Africa, and the Middle East, however, India would capture her fascination that progressed into a lifelong, and eventually, a new home. From here is where most of her work stems from.

Silverstone's India photography includes assignments to photograph important political and religious figures of the time, including Ravi Shankar and the Dalai Lama. However, a considerable bulk of her work is of street photography and environmental portraits of the people of India, who would soon become her peers and neighbors as she moved and converted into a Buddhist nun in the late 1960's.

Traffic on the river. Ettamannur, India. 1959. Marilyn Silverstone.

Silverstone's environmental portraits are of stunning beauty and composition. In particular, this simple snapshot river boating has captivated me. A depiction of three rowers on the Ettamannur river in India, the line of action in the snapshot and rhythmic repetition of the rowers create this dynamic motion in the picture. This, paired with the full range of motion by the rowers, give this curved composition to the piece, not unlike a vertically shifted golden ratio. Portrait composited photos of environmental situations need special attention to positive and negative space, to prevent the subjects from seeming crowded or being uncomfortably cropped. Silverstone, as seen in this example, gives ample space around his subjects to take advantage of their full range of motion and having the ability to have that repetition without it congesting the composition.

Not feeling the need to clutter up my photos with stuff and allowing my subjects the room to breathe is something I want to internalize in my own work, and having the confidence to play with size and proportion of my subjects in relation to their environment are inspirations from Silverstone's photographs can positively influence my work. Dynamic photos do not necessarily mean congested space, but allowing the motion and subjects to breathe and soak in their space.

Source: https://www.magnumphotos.com/photographer/marilyn-silverstone/

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Marilyn Silverstone Young girls intent on learning how to read Iran 1967

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Marilyn Silverstone. SOUTH VIETNAM. Village of Binh Khanh, South of Saigon. Members of a Touring “cultural Drama” Team Teach Village Kids a New Patriotic Song, VIETNAM VIETNAM. Those Who Sing Are given Candy. 1966. https://jstor.org/stable/community.9836948.

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Villagers looking at slides of themselves, Yumthang, North Sikkim, India, Marilyn Silverstone, 1971

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Villagers looking at slides of themselves. Yumthang, North Sikkim, India. 1971

Photo: Marilyn Silverstone

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Marilyn Silverstone 

The wedding of the Maharaja's son. In the zenana (women's quarters of the City Palace), the Maharani of Jaipur (in pink), the groom's sister, the Maharani of Baria, and other women await the formal visit of the Prince before he leaves for his wedding. 

Jaipur, Rajasthan, India. 1966. 

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Marilyn Silverstone 

At the height of the blizzard a young boy paddles his shikara skiff, which is now heaped with snow. 

Lake Dal shores, Srinagar, Kashmir. 1968. 

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Bonjour, bonne journée ☕ ☯️

Le Dalai Lama "Tibet House" Dehli 1965

© Marilyn Silverstone / Magnum Photos

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Marilyn Silverstone - Paris. Woman feeding pigeons on the Champs Elysees. 1956