Shades of Separation: Women in the Grey Area

Katherine and Tom Belk Visual Arts Center - On Site Exhibition

  • Barbara Morgan (American, 1900-1992) x

American photographer. Morgan was born in Buffalo, Kansas, but raised in southern California. She attended UCLA and taught design, woodcut, and painting there for 5 years. She married William Morgan (1925) and moved to New York City (1930), where she took up photography. She is best known for her photography in modern dance.

Le Corbusier in New York by Barbara Morgan
  • Barbara Morgan
  • Le Corbusier in New York, 1946
12.25 x 13.5 in
(31.12 x 34.29 cm)
Gelatin silver print
Martha Graham, Lamentation (Double Image) by Barbara Morgan
  • Barbara Morgan
  • Martha Graham, Lamentation (Double Image), 1935
Silver gelatin print