Background
Vaughan Rachel was born on May 15, 1933, in Oakland, California, United States.
California Institute of the Arts
Vaughan Rachel was born on May 15, 1933, in Oakland, California, United States.
Vaughan Rachel earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts (1973) and Master of Fine Arts (1975) in Photography from California Institute of the Arts, Valencia. She also studied painting at the Hans Hofmann School of Fine Art in New York City (1954).
In 1980s Vaughan Rachel was a photography instructor at Otis/Parsons in Los Angeles and a resident artist-photographer at the Los Angeles Institute of Contemporary Art. She worked as a photo assistant at Astra Image in Los Angeles (for Startrek) in 1979. Vaughan Rachel taught photography at Ambassador College, Pasadena, California, in 1976 and was a slide curator at California Institute of the Arts from 1971 to 1975.