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Corpron, Carlotta M. |
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Carlotta M. Corpron (1901-1988)
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| Birth Place |
Blue Earth, Minnesota |
| Death Place |
Denton, Texas |
| Born |
Dec. 9, 1901 |
| Died |
Apr. 17, 1988 |
| General Notes |
Carlotta M. Corpron was born in Blue Earth, Minnesota, but raised in India, where her father worked as a missionary and surgeon. She received her B.S. in art education from Michigan State Normal College (now Eastern Michigan University) in 1925 and her MA from Teachers College of Columbia University in 1926. Corpron began to make photographs in 1933 while teaching at the University of Cincinnati. She accepted a teaching position at Texas State College for Women (now Texas Woman's University) in Denton, Texas, in 1935 and worked there until 1968. Her photographic work, which began in the mid-1930s and was actively pursued for only a ten- year period during the 1940s, deals almost exclusively with an investigation of light, a focus intensified by study with Gyorgy Kepes. While much of her early work depicts light as it related to natural forms, further investigation led her to photograph light itself as a pattern in abstract compositions. Corporon's work was the subject of an exhibition at the Amon Carter Museum in 1980, and her negatives are housed at the Museum. |
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