Marion Patterson

American, born 1933

BiographyMarion L. Patterson received a B.A. degree with a major in philosophy and a minor in art from Stanford University in 1955 and an M.A. degree in interdisciplinary creative arts from California State University, San Francisco, in 1970. In addition to her degrees, she has studied under some of the country's greatest photographers, including Dorothea Lange, Minor White, Beaumont and Nancy Newhall and Ansel Adams. Patterson has been an active free-lance commercial photographer in both the United States and Mexico, as well as a widely exhibited fine art photographer. She has participated in numerous photographic expeditions, including treks to Nepal, Pakistan, Sikkim, Bhutan and Tibet.

Patterson’s photographs have appeared in Sunset Magazine, Polaroid Portfolio, The Life Library of Photography, Aperture and Westways, among others. She presently teaches photography at Foothill College in Los Altos Hills, California and continues to work as a free-lance photographer.

From the Friends of Photography 1986 print program.

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