Barbara Morgan | |
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&sq=&lang=&file=File:Barbara_Morgan_with_Graflex_1940.jpg) Morgan in 1940 | |
| Born | Barbara Brooks Johnson July 8, 1900 |
| Died | August 17, 1992 (aged 92) |
| Known for | Photography |
| Spouse | Willard D. Morgan |
| Awards | American Society of Magazine Photographers Lifetime Achievement Award (1988) |
Barbara Morgan (July 8, 1900 – August 17, 1992) was an American photographer best known for her depictions of modern dancers. She was a co-founder of the photography magazine Aperture.
Morgan is known in the visual art and dance worlds for her penetrating studies of American modern dancers Martha Graham, Merce Cunningham, Erick Hawkins, José Limón, Doris Humphrey, Charles Weidman and others. Morgan's drawings, prints, watercolors and paintings were exhibited widely in California in the 1920s, and in New York and Philadelphia in the 1930s.