Carlotta Corpron

Carlotta Corpron (December 9, 1901 – April 17, 1988) was an American photographer known for her abstract compositions featuring light and reflections, made mostly during the 1940s and 1950s. She is considered a pioneer of American abstract photography and a key figure in Bauhaus-influenced photography in Texas.

Biography Corpron was born in Blue Earth, Minnesota. . She taught advertising, design, and art history Corpron's teaching and "photographic vision" had a large influence on the next generation of photographers who brought techniques to Texas that hadn't been seen before. One of her students there was Ida Lansky. Corpron also influenced another Texas avant-garde photographer, Barbara Maples.

Of teaching, Corpron said: ″I am one of the fortunate individuals in this world whose vocation and avocation merge. I love teaching above all else, and I have found that as I have developed as a creative photographer, the work of my students has become more interesting.″ .

She retired from teaching in 1968 and died in Denton in 1988.

In 1933, Corpron took up black-and-white photography and was initially interested in it as tool for taking photographs of natural forms for use in textile design courses.

Selected exhibitions Texas Bauhaus, El Paso Museum of Art (2006) Carlotta Corpron: Designer with Light, Amon Carter Museum of American Art (1980) Works on Paper: Southwest 1978, Dallas Museum of Art (1978) Form and Light: 1942-1949, Marcuse Pfeifer Gallery (1977) Women in Photography: An Historical Survey, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (1975) Abstraction in Photography, Museum of Modern Art (1952)