Discipline: Visual Art – photography

Carla Shapiro

Discipline: Visual Art – photography
Region: Chichester, NY
MacDowell Fellowships: 1994, 1996, 1999, 2000, 2001
More: www.carlashapiro.com
Carla Shapiro is a photographer and educator based in the Catskill Mountains of New York. Her photographic projects explore loss and longing, memory and nostalgia, womanhood, aging, and the human condition, often situated in the rural and natural landscapes that surround her home and studio in the mountains. She frequently employs the use of alternative photographic equipment, processes, and materials, such as platinum printing, the wet-plate collodion process, pinhole cameras, and specialty papers, all of which have the effect of creating unique and tactile works.

Studios

Putnam

Carla Shapiro worked in the Putnam studio.

The Graphics Studio (as it was originally named) was converted to its present use in 1972–1974 through a grant from the Putnam Foundation, and originally served the property as both a power house and pump house. Well water was pumped from a large cistern to Hillcrest, the Foreman’s Cottage, and the lower buildings closer to…

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