Background
John Brook was born in 1924 in Woonsocket, Rhode Island, United States.
John Brook was born in 1924 in Woonsocket, Rhode Island, United States.
Brook went to Harvard, where he completed a BS in 1945. He was completely self-educated in photography.
He was one of the twenty photographers chosen to exhibit at Kodak's "Universal Eye Gallery" at the 1970 Osaka World's Fair, and one of twenty included in The Power of Seeing portfolio published in the Thirtieth Anniversary issue of Life (December 23, 1966).
Brook's works consists of black-and-white "records of autobiographical events and color transparencies of visual events found in nature," both executed in medium format. He sometimes uses "self-designed lenses which embody common optical abberrations (positive or negative coma, positive spherical aberration, etc.)."