Researching Marilyn Stafford
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![]() | Did you know that in the 1881 UK census there were 6373 people with the Stafford surname? In that year Stafford was ranked number 645 for popularity in the UK. |

The name Marilyn means "bitter" and is of Hebrew origin.
Records of Marilyn Stafford on Ancestry
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Birth, Death and Marriage Records for Marilyn Stafford and the Stafford Family History
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Marilyn Stafford
Marilyn Stafford (born 1925) is a British photographer. She worked mainly as a freelance photojournalist based in Paris in the 1950s and early 1960s, then in London, travelling to Lebanon, Tunisia, India and elsewhere. Her work was published in The Observer and other newspapers. Stafford also worked as a fashion photographer in Paris, where she photographed models in the streets in everyday situations, rather than in the more usual opulent surroundings.
Stafford has published three books of photographs, Silent Stories: A Photographic Journey Through Lebanon in the Sixties (1998); Stories in Pictures: A Photographic Memoir 1950 (2014) of Paris in the 1950s; and Marilyn Stafford: A Life in Photography (2021). She has had solo exhibitions at the Nehru Centre, London, Arundel Museum, Alliance Française de Toronto, Art Bermondsey Project Space, and Farleys House, East Sussex.
In 2020 she was awarded the Chairman's Lifetime Achievement Award 2019 at the UK Picture Editors' Guild Awards in London.
Source: Marilyn Stafford, Wikipedia, The Free EncyclopediaOther names that sound a bit like Stafford
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