Sandweiss, Martha A., Carlotta Corpron: designer with light, exh. cat., Austin, University of Texas Press, 1980
American photographer.
Born in Minnesota and educated at British boarding schools in India, Carlotta Corpron returned to the United States when she was nineteen. After studying art, she became a teacher, first at the Women’s College of Alabama (1926–8), then at the University of Cincinnati (1928–35), and finally at Texas Woman’s University in Denton (1935–68). At first, she taught design, advertising, and art history, and in 1936 started one of the earliest ‘creative photography’ courses, based on an experimental exploration of the medium: “From the early days my mother encouraged me to think in terms of a career instead of marrying…. I never married and I never wanted to. I was liberated long before the women’s movement.”
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