| Marianne Greenwood | |
| Birth Name: | Marianne Hederström |
| Birth Place: | Gällivare, Sweden |
| Death Place: | Antibes, France |
| Nationality: | Swedish |
| Field: | Photography |
Marianne Greenwood (1916–2006) was a Swedish photographer and author.[1]
Greenwood was born Marianne Hederström in Gällivare,[1] and raised in Kiruna and Skellefteå, all in northern Sweden.
Before the end of World War II Greenwood moved to Stockholm and studied at the art school of design.[2] She then moved to Switzerland and the hotel school in Lausanne, and subsequently moved to Antibes where she became the "in-house photographer" for the Musée Picasso,[2] photographing Picasso and his family and visitors such as Matisse, Chagall, Miró, and Léger. The authors Anais Nin, Robert Graves and Chester Himes were among her close friends. In Los Angeles she was also a friend of the film director Fritz Lang.
She began a friendship with Evert Taube, the Swedish national troubadour and poet. For several decades she lived with indigenous people in the Americas, the Pacific Islands, in Papua New Guinea and parts of Asia.[1] 30,000 of her photographs from this era are archived in the Ethnographical Museum in Stockholm.
Greenwood wrote and photographed for books and magazines in France, Germany, the United States, Sweden and other countries, and published books of her own work.
In 2005 Greenwood received a Women of Discovery Award for Lifetime Achievement from Wings Worldquest[3] in New York.
In later years Greenwood lived in Antibes, France. She is buried in Stockholm, Sweden. A documentary film about Greenwood entitled "Catch the Moment" premiered in 2008, and has been broadcast on public service television in Denmark, Iceland, Norway and Sweden.