Discipline: Visual Art

Carole Gallagher

Discipline: Visual Art
Region: Conifer, CO
MacDowell Fellowships: 1980, 1982, 1992

Carole Gallagher has published, exhibited, and lectured widely, and has been the recipient of numerous awards, grants, and honors, including a grant in 1988 from the MacArthur Foundation's Program on International Peace and Security. Gallagher's influential photographs and journalism concerning the nuclear weapons complex have been published in many newspapers and magazines, both nationally and internationally. The Leo Castelli Gallery in New York City exhibited her early work from 1979 to 1981, and the International Center of Photography in New York, the Museum of Contemporary Photography in Chicago, & San Francisco Camerawork exhibited photos from "American Ground Zero: The Secret Nuclear War" (The MIT Press, 1993; Random House, 1994). Chosen as one of the eight best books of the decade by American Photographer magazine, and one of the 100 most important books of the 20th Century by Counterpunch.

Studios

Putnam

Carole Gallagher 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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