Carlotta Corpron, (1901-1988) was a photographer whose work has been called "light-poetry".
She graduated in 1925 with a B.S. in art education, then attended the Teachers' College of Columbia University. There she studied art education and fabric design and was awarded her M.A. in 1926. From 1926 to 1928 she taught at the Women's College of Alabama (now Huntington College) in Montgomery. After a summer sojourn in Europe she accepted a teaching post at the University of Cincinnati School of Applied Arts, where she taught from 1928 to 1935. In 1933 she bought her first camera for use as a teaching aid in a textile design course. In 1935 she moved to Denton, Texas, to teach advertising design and art history at Texas State College for Women (now Texas Woman's University), a post she held until her retirement in 1968.
Her work radiates power, warmth, richness of nuances, and clarity of space. She's very experimental with light plays, from distorted mirrors, refracted light & other optical reflections. She translates these optical events into artistic statements revealing more than just material substances on a surface. To me her works can create metaphors of deeper meanings that are inspiring and thoughtful.
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