| Lauren Shaw |
Troop 758, Tiverton, RI
1971/1972
Silver print
on original mount
6 x 5-3/4 in. (152 x 146 mm)
Shaw received her MFA in photography from the Rhode Island School of Design, where she studied with Harry Callahan and Aaron Siskind. She is Associate Professor at Emerson College, where she has been teaching photography for 36 years. She is Co- founder of New England Women in Photography, and Co-chaired the National Conference in 1997. She is the recipient of two National Endowment Regional Grants and ten Emerson College Faculty Advancement Fund grants. She was awarded the Excellence in Photographic Teaching Award from the Santa Fe Center for Photography, 2004. Her work has been exhibited widely throughout the United States and is in photographic collections at the Getty Museum, Boston Museum of Fine Arts, Fogg Museum, Harvard University, High Museum of Art, Art Institute of Chicago, Newark Museum, and the Library of Congress. H er exhibition and documentary video, Maine Women: Living on the Land, premiered at the Farnsworth Museum, Rockland, ME, on August 7, 2005, and has traveled to ten venues throughout the United States since then. "Maine Women; Living on the Land" was published in 2005 to accompany the exhibition.
Price: $450 (ref. 11988)