Background
Katherine L. Reese was born in Chicago, Illinois, United States.
Katherine L. Reese was born in Chicago, Illinois, United States.
Reese received her BA cum laude in 1947 from Smith College, Northampton, Massachusetts.
Since 1971 she has directed Kay Reese and Associates, a photographic agency specializing in annual reports and advertising photography. She was director of the "Chicago Photo One" exhibit in 1972, and that same year created a research report, "Toward a National Photographic File," for the International Center of Photography in New York City.
Reese was executive editor for Rapho Guillumette Pictures in New York City from 1960 to 1970, executive director of the American Society of Magazine Photographers from 1955 to 1958 and editor of ASMP's Infinity magazine during that time as well.