Background
Consuelo Kanaga was born in 1894 in Astoria, Oregon, United States. The second child of Amos Ream Kanaga and Mathilda Carolina Hartwig. Her father was a successful lawyer and judge in Ohio.
Consuelo Kanaga was born in 1894 in Astoria, Oregon, United States. The second child of Amos Ream Kanaga and Mathilda Carolina Hartwig. Her father was a successful lawyer and judge in Ohio.
In 1927 traveled in Europe with Louise Dahl-Wolfe. Kanaga became a reporter and feature writer, then a photographer, for the San Francisco Chronicle (1915). In 1926 she joined the New York American as a news photographer, and in 1934 she was a contract photographer for the Daily Worker and New Masses. She participated in the Works Progress Administration Arts Program in 1936, and in the 1940s she freelanced for Woman's Day.
Kanaga was a member of Group f/64.