Main entry:

McKenna, Rosalie Thorne, photographer.

Title & Author:

Making a life in photography : Rollie McKenna / Jessica D. Brier, Mary-Kay Lombino, Rebecca Senf, T. Barton Thurber, Luísa Valle.

Publication:

Poughkeepsie, N.Y : The Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center ; New York : Scala Arts Publishers, Inc, 2024.
New York, NY : Distributed outside of the museum in the book trade by ACC Art Books.
©2024

Description:

224 pages : illustrations ; 28 x 24 cm

Notes:
Publication information from colophon.
"This catalog has been published in conjunction with the exhibition Making a life in photograph: Rollie McKenna, organized and presented at The Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, New York, February 17-June 2, 2024, and curated by Jessica D. Brier and Mary-Kay Lombino."--Colophon.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Making a life in photography / Jessica D. Brier and Mary-Kay Lombino -- Acknowledgments / Jessica D. Brier and Mary-Kay Lombino -- Loving the subject : McKenna's early architectural photographs / T. Barton Thurber -- Plates : people & places -- Living a feminist life in photography, quietly / Jessica D. Brier -- Plates : life & photography -- McKenna's modernism / Mary-Kay Lombino -- Plates : McKenna's modernism -- Eye on the sky, eye on the ground : Rollie McKenna and alternative histories of Latin American modernism / Luísa Valle -- Plates : McKenna at work -- Chance, intention, and archives : Rollie McKenna's materials at the Center for Creative Photography / Rebecca Senf -- Chronology : life and career of Rollie McKenna / compiled by Léa Greenberg -- Exhibition checklist.

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.

ISBN:

1785514547 (hardcover)
9781785514548 (hardcover)

Subject:

McKenna, Rosalie Thorne Exhibitions.
McKenna, Rosalie Thorne.
Vassar College. Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center Exhibitions.
Vassar College. Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center
Photography, Artistic Exhibitions.
Women photographers United States Exhibitions.
Femmes photographes États-Unis Expositions.
Photographie artistique Expositions.
Photography, Artistic.
Women photographers.
United States.

Form/genre:

exhibition catalogs.
Exhibition catalogs
Catalogues d'exposition.

Added entries:

Brier, Jessica D., contributor, curator.
Lombino, Mary-Kay, contributor, curator.
Senf, Rebecca A., contributor.
Thurber, T. Barton, contributor.
Valle, Luísa (Ph.D in art history), contributor.
Greenberg, Léa, contributor.
Vassar College. Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, organizer, host institution.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 320266
Call No.: 320266
Copy: 1
Status: Available