Barbara Morgan (photographer)
- Barbara Morgan (photographer)
Barbara Morgan (1900-1992) was an American photographer best known for her work in dance. She was a co-founder of the photography magazine "Aperture".
Biography
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After a 1930 move to New York Morgan continued her drawing and painting work, with her first solo show held in Philadelphia in 1934. But after the birth of her second son, she began concentrating on photography. In 1935 she met Martha Graham and began several years of photographing Graham and other dancers including Merce Cunningham, Doris Humphrey, and Jose Limon. In 1938, she was invited to the Bennington College Summer School of Dance as its official photographer.
She returned to painting in the 1950s, but continued renown for her camerawork. In 1975, she was a recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts grant. In later life she lived in Scarsdale, New York, and she died in Tarrytown, New York.
Published works
* "Martha Graham: Sixteen Dances in Photographs"
* "Summer's Children" (about summer camp culture)
* "Barbara Morgan- A Morgan & Morgan Monograph", 1972
Awards and recogition
* Lifetime Achievement Award of American Society of Magazine Photographers
External links
* [http://photography.about.com/od/hqphotographers/a/b_morgan.htm Barbara Morgan] - About.com
* [http://www.temple.edu/photo/photographers/morgan2/index/morgan.html Barbara Morgan pages] at Temple University
* [http://www.mocp.org/collections/permanent/morgan_barbara.php Barbara Morgan works] at the Museum of Contemporary Photography
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