词条 | Marilyn Silverstone |
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YouthThe eldest daughter of Murray and Dorothy Silverstone was born in London.[1] Her father, the son of Polish immigrants to America, rose to become managing director, and president, international, respectively, of United Artists[2] and 20th-Century Fox,[3] working with Charlie Chaplin and other early film stars in London. The family returned to America just before the outbreak of the Second World War in Europe.[4] Silverstone grew up in Scarsdale, New York. After graduating from Wellesley College, she became an associate editor for Art News, Industrial Design and Interiors in the early 1950s.[1] She moved to Italy to make documentary art films.[4] PhotojournalistSilverstone became a working photojournalist in 1955, traveling and capturing the range of images that her vision led her to find in Europe, Africa and the Middle East.[4] In 1956, she travelled to India on assignment to photograph Ravi Shankar. She returned to the subcontinent in 1959; what was intended to be a short trip became the beginning of a fascination with India which lasted for the rest of her life.[5] Her photographs of the arrival in India of the Dalai Lama, who was escaping from the Chinese invasion of Tibet, made the lead in Life.[4] In that period, she met and fell in love with the journalist Frank Moraes.[3] Moraes was then editor of The Indian Express. The couple lived together in New Delhi until 1973, socializing with politicians, journalists and intellectuals,[1] and diplomats.[4] A number of Moraes' editorials had earned the ire of Prime Minister Indira Gandhi and the situation deteriorated to the point that a retreat to London became the best course.[3] Over the years, Silverstone's reputation as a photographer grew. In 1967, she joined Magnum Photos,[6] in which she was only one of five women members.[4] Silverstone's work for Magnum included photographing subjects ranging from Albert Schweitzer to the coronation of the Shah of Iran.[1] At the time of Silverstone's death, preparation of an exhibition at the Scottish National Portrait Gallery featuring her work and that of other Magnum photographers was nearing completion.[7] the University of St Andrews hosted a seminar in conjunction with this exhibition, and as Silverstone had just recently died, the seminar became an opportunity for her peers to celebrate her life and career.[8] Buddhist nunSilverstone's conversion to Buddhist nun was said to have begun when she was an teenager suffering from the mumps.[3] She later explained that during this conventional childhood illness, she read Secret Tibet by Fosco Maraini and she said the book provided a key she long carried in her subconscious.[1] In the late 1960s, Silverstone had worked on a photography assignment about a Tibetan Buddhist lama in Sikkim named Khanpo Rinpoche and, when the lama came to London for medical treatment in the 1970s, Rinpoche stayed with the couple. At this point, Silverstone decided to learn Tibetan in order to study Buddhism with him. After Moraes's death in 1974, Silverstone decided to join the entourage of another celebrated lama, Khentse Rinpoche, who left London for a remote monastery in Nepal.[3] In 1977, she took vows as a Buddhist nun.[1] Her Buddhist name was Bhikshuni Ngawang Chödrön,[9] or Ani Marilyn to her close friends.[4] In her new life in Kathmandu, she researched the vanishing customs of Rajasthan and the Himalayan kingdoms.[1] In 1999, Ngawang Chödrön returned to the United States for cancer treatment and she learned that she was terminally ill. She was clear that she wanted to die in Nepal, her home for the past 25 years. However, no airline would carry a passenger in her fragile condition. She resolved the impasse by persuading a doctor on vacation to accompany her on the return to Kathmandu.[3] The journey was fraught with difficulties. She was barely conscious during the trip and a stopover was necessary in Vienna. She died in 1999 in a Buddhist monastery near Katmandu[10] where she had worked to establish and maintain.[3] About her, she said "I can say that I did it all."[11] Selected worksBooks by Silverstone
Books with contributions by Silverstone
Notes1. ^1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Martin, Douglas. [https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9E03E2D71E3EF937A35753C1A96F958260&scp=4&sq=fosco+maraini&st=nyt "Marilyn Silverstone, 70, Dies; Photographer and Buddhist Nun"], New York Times, October 4, 1999. 2. ^Magnum Photos: Silverstone thumbnail archives, PAR179950 (DRG19XXXXX W00X37) Noel Thompson. "No! This is not about the Derby," Daily Sketch (London). June 2, 1938. 3. ^1 2 3 4 5 6 Khan, Naseem. "Obituary: Marion Silverstone", The Independent (London). October 6, 1999. 4. ^1 2 3 4 5 6 Hillelson, John. [https://www.theguardian.com/news/1999/oct/02/guardianobituaries "Marilyn Silverstone: She abandoned the glamour of photojournalism to become a Buddhist nun in Nepal"], The Guardian, October 2, 1999. 5. ^Martin, Russell. (1999). [https://books.google.com/books?id=sc51OU4DLeAC&pg=RA1-PA201&dq=Marilyn+Silverstone&lr=&sig=np8HXxHOuglrQfvqGLsoTy6gYNE Magnum: Fifty Years at the Front Line of History, p. 201.] 6. ^Silverstone biography, Magnum Photos web site. 7. ^Wood, Gaby. [https://www.theguardian.com/theobserver/1999/nov/07/featuresreview.review3 "Magnum forces: Gaby Wood gets on a train with five of the century's best photographers and meets the woman who stole Arthur Miller's heart from Marilyn Monroe"], The Guardian, November 7, 1999. 8. ^Magnum Photos: Silverstone thumbnail archives, PAR179924 (DRG19XXXXX Z00X25) 9. ^Ricard, Matthieu. (1994). [https://books.google.com/books?id=IA1VhyLNIccC&pg=PR11&dq=Marilyn+Silverstone&lr=&sig=Npn-3DLV4vjWEGzP0qodSMom7zc The Life of Shabkar: The Autobiography of a Tibetan Yogi], p. xi. 10. ^{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1999/10/04/world/marilyn-silverstone-70-dies-photographer-and-buddhist-nun.html|title=Marilyn Silverstone, 70, Dies; Photographer and Buddhist Nun|last=Martin|first=Douglas|date=1999-10-04|work=The New York Times|access-date=2018-02-24|language=en-US|issn=0362-4331}} 11. ^Harrod, Horatia. [https://www.telegraph.co.uk/arts/main.jhtml?xml=/arts/2007/10/28/sv_magnum.xml&page=1 "Magnum: snapshots of history"], The Daily Telegraph (London), October 28, 2007. References
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