Making a life in photography : Rollie McKenna /

"Making a Life in Photography: Rollie McKenna is the first career survey of prolific American photographer Rosalie (Rollie) Thorne McKenna (1918-2003). After graduating from Vassar College in 1940, McKenna worked independently as a sought-after architectural and portrait photographer, making unique...

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Other Authors:	McKenna, Rosalie Thorne (Photographer), Brier, Jessica D. (Contributor), Lombino, Mary-Kay (Contributor), Senf, Rebecca A. (Contributor), Thurber, T. Barton (Contributor), Valle, Luísa (Ph.D in art history) (Contributor), Greenberg, Léa (Contributor)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Poughkeepsie, N.Y : New York : The Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center ; Scala Arts Publishers, Inc, 2024.
Subjects:	McKenna, Rosalie Thorne > Exhibitions. Vassar College. > Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center > Exhibitions. Photography, Artistic > United States > Exhibitions. Women photographers > United States > Exhibitions. McKenna, Rosalie Thorne. Vassar College. > Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center. Photography, Artistic. United States. Women photographers. Exhibition catalogs. Catalogues d'exposition. Vassar College.
Summary:	"Making a Life in Photography: Rollie McKenna is the first career survey of prolific American photographer Rosalie (Rollie) Thorne McKenna (1918-2003). After graduating from Vassar College in 1940, McKenna worked independently as a sought-after architectural and portrait photographer, making unique yet underrecognized contributions to American modernisn and documentary photography. McKenna's work was published in numerous books and magazines including Vogue, Vanity Fair, and Fortune. The Museum of Modern Art's 1955 landmark exhibition Latin American Architecture Since 1945 featured her architectural photographs. She made iconic portraits of artists and writers, including W.H. Auden, Elizabeth Bishop, Alexander Calder, Truman Capote, T.S. Eliot, Laura Gilpin, Henry Moore, Sylvia Plath, Ezra Pound, Anne Sexton, Dylan Thomas, and Eudora Welty. Using her camera, McKenna forged an unusual path for a woman in mid-twentieth-century America toward personal and creative freedom. She embraced photography to explore the complexities of human experience--including her own queer and feminist life."-- Provided by publisher.