Margaretta Mitchell

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Margaretta K. Mitchell was born in 1935 in Brooklyn, New York. After graduating magna cum laude in 1957 from Smith College, Mitchell was as a research assistant to Edwin Land, who was instrumental in the invention of the Polaroid instant camera Mitchell's works in the Pictorialist tradition, primarily in black and white. Her published books include To a Cabin (1973), Recollections: Ten Women of Photography (1979), Dance for Life (1985), Flowers (1991), Ruth Bernhard - Between Art and Life (2000), and The Face of Poetry (2005). Her work can be found in the collections of the Amon Carter Museum of American Art (Texas), the International Center of Photography (New York), the Akron Art Museum, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Princeton University, among others.