Brooks, Charlotte (1918–)
Brooks, Charlotte (1918–)
American photographer. Born in New York, NY, 1918; Brooklyn College, BA, 1940; graduate work in psychology, University of Minnesota, 1941.
Apprenticed with dance photographer Barbara Morgan (c. 1944); was staff photographer for a chain of newspapers and worked on a 1,000-picture project for Standard Oil; became the 1st woman staff photographer for Look magazine (1951), a position she held until the magazine folded (1971); at International Center of Photography in New York, participated in the group exhibition Roy Stryker: USA (1943–50), which later toured; had solo exhibition at New Britain Museum of American Art (CT), entitled A Poem of Portraits (1994).
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