Background
Mary was born on August 10, 1920, in Sacramento, California, the United States.
Mary Koga
artist Photographer social worker
Mary was born on August 10, 1920, in Sacramento, California, the United States.
In 1942 Mary studied at the University of California in Berkeley, California, the United States. She received a Bachelor of Arts degree. In five years she became a student of the University of Chicago in Chicago, Illinois, United States. She became a Master of Arts. In 1973 Mary studied at Art Institute of Chicago in Chicago, Illinois, United States. She received a Master of Fine Arts degree.
Mary taught photography at Columbia College in Chicago, Illinois, the United States. Her first career was devoted to the social sciences: initially a social worker for the Family Service Bureau of United Charities of Chicago, from 1947 to 1952, then she worked as a faculty member and chief psychologist at the Medical School of Northwestern University in Chicago, from 1952 to 1958, and as an assistant professor in the School of Social Service Administration at the University of Chicago, from 1959 to 1969.
Koga worked in black-and-white and color. She was interested in photographing people in their own environment and in exploring abstractions from natural subjects, such as plant and flower forms.
Married Albert M. Koga, June 28, 1947.
