LOTHIGIUS-WALDER, Ingrid.

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New York street photography - a collection of original photographs, negatives and contact sheets. An unusual and evocative archive of images by Ingrid Lothigius-Walder (1920-1998), a Swedish-born actress and poet who settled in New York in 1965 and took up street photography. The present group largely comprises images made on the city's streets during the 1970s, together with a smaller group of portraits, a genre for which she seems to have possessed a singular talent, undertaken on commission to support herself.Ingrid Lothigius emigrated to Los Angeles and in 1961 starred in the Vernon Zimmerman experimental short To L.A... With Lust co-starring Andy Warhol favourite Taylor Mead. In 1965, she relocated to NYC and began taking photography classes at Parsons and New York School of Photography, studying with George A. Tice and Lisette Model, whose influence is clear in the present collection. By 1980, she was exhibiting her work quite extensively, not just at The East Gallery, NYU, and the Parsons School Gallery, but she also had several shows at the Soho Photo Gallery, and also gave slideshows at the United Nations Photography Club, featuring images from a tour among the Berbers in Tunisia, and at Studio 54 and Magique Disco. There are a number of poster/handbills present for exhibitions of her photographs at O'Neal's on 43rd Street, "They have no style colour-abstracts-experimental-nudes-portraits-streetlife here or maybe Africa - views of N. Y. Stockholm or the moon, painted

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