[LargeFormat] Fw: [PhotoHistory] Obit: Rollie McKenna

Stuart Phillips largeformat@f32.net
Tue Jul 15 19:26:00 2003


From the Photohistory List

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> Rollie McKenna, a photographer best known for her portraits of Dylan
Thomas
> and other lions of English literature, died June 14 in Northampton, Mass.
> She was 84 and had formerly lived in Stonington, Conn.
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> Rollie McKenna -- her full name was Rosalie Thorne McKenna -- found her
> calling at 30 when she bought her first camera on a visit to Paris. She
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> working as a researcher for Time and Life magazines, haunting the literary
> and artistic circles of the United States and Europe.
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