Background
Barbara Brooks Morgan was born on July 8, 1900, in Buffalo, Kansas, United States.
Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA
Barbara studied at the University of California in Los Angeles, California, United States, from 1919 to 1923.
Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA
Barbara studied at the University of California in Los Angeles, California, United States, from 1919 to 1923.
1944
Barbara Brooks Morgan was born on July 8, 1900, in Buffalo, Kansas, United States.
Barbara studied at the University of California in Los Angeles, California, United States, from 1919 to 1923.
Barbara was a co-owner of the publishing company Morgan & Morgan, Inc. She was an instructor of art at the University of California in Los Angeles, California, United States, from 1925 to 1930.
Barbara created photomontages and light drawings as well as portraits and candid photographs of children. Morgan was 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, Charles Weidman 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.
Publications Monographs: Barbara Morgan: Photomontage, 1980; Barbara Morgan, intro. by Peter Bunnell, 1972; Summer's Children, 1951. Books: Prestini's Art in Wood, Edgar Kaufmann Jr., 1950; Martha Graham: Sixteen Dances m Photographs, 1941. Anthologies: The Photograph Collector's Guide, Lee D. Witkin & Barbara London, 1979; Recollections: Ten Women of Photography, Margaretta Mitchell, 1979; The Magic Image, Cecil Beaton & Gail Buckland, 1975; Women in Photography, Margery Mann & Ann Noggle, eds., 1975; Looking at Photographs, John Szarkowski, ed., 1973; The Woman's Eye, Ann Tucker, ed., 1973; Art of Photography, 1971; Photographing Children, 1971, The Studio, 1971, Photography as a Tool, Time-Life Series, 1970. Periodicals: British Journal of Photography, June 13, 1975; Foto, July 1972 (The Netherlands), July 1965 (Munich); "My Creative Experience with Photomontage," Image, 14:5-6, 1971; Popular Photography, Aug 1969, Oct 1951, June 1945; Camera, Feb 1952; Aperture 11:1, 1964, 1:4, 1953; U.S. Camera, Feb 1944, Dec 1941; "Barbara Morgan: Painter Turned Photographer," Etna M. Kelley, Photography, Sept 1938.
