Laura McPhee is an American photographer known for large-format photography, specifically using an 8 by 10 Deardorff camera. Her love for photography came from her mother, but her love for landscape photography that she is widely known for is from her father. Some of her accomplishments include a Fulbright Scholars Fellowship in 1998 for her work in India and Sri Lanka and a residency from the Alturas Foundation from 2003 - 2005. She was also awarded a New England Foundation for the Arts fellowship in 1995 and a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation fellowship in 1993. Her work is in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and the Getty Center, the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, to just name a few. Currently McPhee is represented by the Bonni Benrubi Gallery in New York, the Carroll and Sons Gallery in Boston, and the G. Gibson Gallery in Seattle, WA. Her work on “River of No Return” was exhibited at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, a monograph of the same title was published by Yale in 2008. No Ordinary Land (in collaboration with Virginia Beahan) was published by Aperture in 1998. McPhee's most current book was in 2014 titled, The Home and the World: A View of Calcutta, collections of photographs from her travels.
Laura McPhee
Studios
Putnam
Laura McPhee 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…