Grace Robertson

Robertson, Grace (b. 1930), British photographer. Robertson is unusual for having been a female photojournalist in a man's world. Disciplined by both her chosen medium and her situation, she wrote: ‘I developed my working method in the belief that as a photojournalist, with strong leanings towards pure documentary, I should not let my feelings dictate the photographic process.’ Nonetheless, as a woman she tended to be given the ‘softer’ stories, even during her time on Picture Post (1950-7). (One of her stories, on the birth of a baby, was killed for being ‘too bloody’; wars, evidently, were not.) She also worked for Simon Guttmann's Report agency from 1949, and as a freelance for Life in the 1950s. She continued to photograph while working as a teacher in the 1960s and 1970s, and began painting in the 1980s.

— Amanda Hopkinson

Bibliography

• Grace Robertson, Photojournalist of the 1950s (1989)

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Grace Robertson, OBE, is a Scottish photographer who was born in Manchester, England in 1930.

After leaving school she looked after her mother who suffered from rheumatoid arthritis. Robertson's father gave her a second-hand camera in 1949 and the following year she had a photo story about her sister doing her homework published in Picture Post. Over the next few years she had several photo stories published in the magazine including Sheep Shearing in Wales (1951), Tate Gallery (1952), Mother's Day Off (1954) and Childbirth (1955)^[1].

As well as photojournalism for magazines such as Life Magazine, Robertson worked in advertising. She is the daughter of the late journalist and broadcaster Fyfe Robertson.

References

1. ^ Robertson, Grace (1989). Grace Robertson: Photojournalist of the 50s. London: Virago Press. pp. 7-27. ISBN 1-85381-089-4. 

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