Marguerite Dufresne
Freelance photographer
- Age
- 34
- From
- New England
- Lives
- No. 11 Pell Street — Irregular Interior
- Now
- On holiday — the White Mountains
Before Arkham's business
From Trois-Rivières by way of Lowell. Photographs weddings for money and the river for herself. Rents Lyman's darkroom three days a week.
Watchful, funny, private. Sees in terms of light and exposure and says so.
Afraid of
Being photographed · Darkrooms after midnight
Believes
The camera sees what's there. People see what they expect.
From the journal
Taking the train to Lowell to see Maman. She will ask when I'm getting married. I will ask about her knees. A clean towel, a red bulb, and half an hour.
Rain all day, the kind that gets inside the camera bag. Printed indoors and swore in French. Picture it: narrow stairs climbing into the dark. People look at a portrait and see a soul.
Developed the river series. Two good plates out of twelve. That is a good day. You could hear a gramophone somewhere.
Back from Lowell with a jar of cretons and a head full of Maman's questions. Arkham looks the same. It never does, quite. Steady hands.