Barbara Morgan
Photographer, Visual Artist
1900 – 1992
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Who was Barbara Morgan?
Barbara Morgan was an American photographer best known for her depictions of modern dancers. She was a co-founder of the photography magazine Aperture.
Morgan is known in the visual art and dance worlds for her penetrating studies of American modern dancers Martha Graham, Merce Cunningham, Erick Hawkins, Jose Limon, Doris Humphrey, and others. Morgan’s drawings, prints, watercolors and paintings were exhibited widely in California in the 1920s, and in New York and Philadelphia in the 1930s.
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- Born
- Jul 8, 1900
Buffalo - Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
- Education
- University of California, Los Angeles
- Lived in
- Tarrytown
- Buffalo
- Died
- Aug 17, 1992
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on July 23, 2013
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