Mariana Cook

Mariana Cook (born 1955) is an American fine art photographer specializing in black and white photography and gelatin silver prints.[1][2]

Her work has been exhibited in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Modern Art, the J. Paul Getty Museum, the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, the National Portrait Gallery, the Bibliothèque Nationale, and the Musee d'Art Moderne.[3]

She is perhaps best known for her black and white portrait, A Couple in Chicago, which captures a young Barack and Michelle Obama in their 1996 Hyde Park apartment, and the accompanying interview for The New Yorker.[1][4]

  1. ^ a b "Barack and Michelle Obama, Chicago, Illinois". Metropolitan Museum of Art. Archived from the original on 3 December 2022. Retrieved 4 March 2017.
  2. ^ "Mariana Cook - Biography". Cook Studio. Archived from the original on 18 December 2019. Retrieved 4 March 2017.
  3. ^ "Secret Life of Scientists and Engineers - Mariana Cook". Nova. PBS. Archived from the original on 18 July 2018. Retrieved 4 March 2017.
  4. ^ Cook, Mariana (19 January 2009). "A Couple in Chicago". The New Yorker. ISSN 0028-792X. Archived from the original on 15 April 2023. Retrieved 4 March 2017.