Carlotta Corpron American, 1901-1988
Solarized Amaryllis, c. 1940
Vintage gelatin silver print
2.75 x 3.75 in. print on 6.5 x 5 in. mount
Carlotta Corpron (1901 – 1988) was an American photographer known for her abstract compositions featuring light and reflections. She is considered a pioneer of American abstract photography and a key...
Carlotta Corpron (1901 – 1988) was an American photographer known for her abstract compositions featuring light and reflections. She is considered a pioneer of American abstract photography and a key figure in Bauhaus-influenced photography in Texas.
From the Amon Carter Museum, Fort Worth: Carlotta Corpron had a brief but important career as an artist and a decades-long impact as a professor at the Texas Woman’s University. In the 1930s and ‘40s she experimented with light, influenced by the ideals of the Bauhaus and the Institute of Design as brought to Denton, Texas, by László Moholy-Nagy and György Kepes. Her early photographs investigated how light transforms natural objects, but in later projects she took light itself as her subject, capturing its reflection and refraction in abstract compositions that sometimes involved cropping or combining multiple negatives.
From the Amon Carter Museum, Fort Worth: Carlotta Corpron had a brief but important career as an artist and a decades-long impact as a professor at the Texas Woman’s University. In the 1930s and ‘40s she experimented with light, influenced by the ideals of the Bauhaus and the Institute of Design as brought to Denton, Texas, by László Moholy-Nagy and György Kepes. Her early photographs investigated how light transforms natural objects, but in later projects she took light itself as her subject, capturing its reflection and refraction in abstract compositions that sometimes involved cropping or combining multiple negatives.