Chronology
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1945
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Born, Hartford, CT
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1966
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Seeing a retrospective of Dorothea Lange's work and viewing MoMA's photography collection with nudes by Bill Brandt, Irving Penn, and Edward Weston.
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1967
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Met James Card, film curator at the George Eastman House, who was a juror for a National Student Film Festival I organized at Wellesley. He later wrote me that I was a marked woman and he counted on me to make memorable images.
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1970
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Seeing Berenice Abbott's masterful photographs of 3 completely different subjects: portraits, New York City, and science at MoMA. Utterly inspiring.
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1974
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Seeing Eikoh Hosoe's elegant, spiritual nudes from his Embrace Series at Light Gallery in NYC.
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1975
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Seeing the retrospective of Edward Weston's work at MoMA.
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1978
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My year in Greece on the Wellesley Traveling Fellowship was a rare opportunity to live in terms of daily risks and passions, close to the land. It resulted in creative leaps with my Nudes in Water series.
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Awards
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2010
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First Prize, Nudes, Julia Margaret Cameron Awards
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2010
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Grand Prize, Renaissance International Photo Competition,
London, England
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2006
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Ultimate Eye Foundation Grant for Figurative Photography
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1999
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LEF Foundation Grant
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1981
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Polaroid Corporation Grant
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1978
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Stevens Traveling Fellowship, Wellesley College,
Greece
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Solo Exhibitions
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2011
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Refraction & Reflection,
PRC Gallery at MIT Center for Theoretical Physics,
Cambridge, MA
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2009
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Gallery 1581, Boston Graduate School of Psychoanalysis,
Brookline, MA
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2008
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Journeying Within the Human Landscape,
Pine Manor College,
Chestnut Hill, MA
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2000
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Karin Rosenthal: Twenty Years of Photographs,
Danforth Museum of Art,
Framingham, MA
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2000
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Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Harvard University,
Cambridge, MA
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2000
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A Retrospective,
Rice/Polak Gallery,
Provincetown, MA
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1997
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Panopticon Gallery,
Boston, MA
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1995
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The Firehouse Arts Center,
Newburyport, MA
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1992
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Arthur Griffin Center for Photographic Art,
Winchester, MA
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1981
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Fogg Museum Print Room,
Cambridge, MA
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Group Exhibitions
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2010
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Re-Presenting the Nude, 2010,
Evoke Contemporary,
Santa Fe, NM
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2008
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First Doubt: Optical Confusion in Modern Photography,
Yale University Art Gallery,
New Haven, CT
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2008
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Body and Soul,
Benham Gallery,
Seattle, WA
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2008
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Ryuijie, Tony O'Brien, Karin Rosenthal,
Verve Gallery,
Santa Fe, NM
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2006
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Through Other's Eyes,
J. Johnson Gallery,
Jacksonville Beach, FL
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2005
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The Photography of Frances Paley & Karin Rosenthal,
Benham Gallery,
Seattle, WA
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2004
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New Faces: New Vision,
Danforth Museum of Art,
Framingham, MA
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2004
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Beneath the Surface,
Panopticon Gallery,
Waltham, MA
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2003
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Modernbook Gallery,
Palo Alto, CA
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2003
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Re-presenting Representation VI,
Arnot Art Museum,
Elmira, NY
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2002
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Joyce Tenneson and Karin Rosenthal,
Fraser Gallery,
Bethesda, MD
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1998
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The Body in the Mirror,
Festival for Musee de L'Elysee, Lausanne),
Skopelos, Greece
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1998
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A Salute to Boston,
Boston Public Library,
Boston, MA
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1995
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Transformations,
Jewett Arts Center Gallery, Wellesley College,
Wellesley, MA
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1995
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At Water's Edge,
The Vineyard Studio Gallery,
Martha's Vineyard, MA
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1994
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The Body as Sculpture,
Scheinbaum & Russek Gallery,
Santa Fe, NM
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1992
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Some Women Photographers,
Boston Museum of Fine Arts,
Boston, MA
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1992
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New England Photographers,
Danforth Museum of Art,
Framingham, MA
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1990
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Homage to Mapplethorpe,
Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University,
Cambridge, MA
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1990
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Body Language! The Figure in the Art of our Time,
Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University,
Waltham, MA
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1982
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The Photographic Nude,
Boston Museum of Fine Arts,
Boston, MA
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Collections
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Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
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International Center of Photography, New York, NY
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Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT
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Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY
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Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA
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Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
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Mit List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, MA
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Boston Public Library, Boston, MA
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Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA
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Polaroid Collection/Musee de l'Elysee, Lausanne, Switzerland
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Danforth Museum of Art, Framingham, MA
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New Britain Museum of American Art, New Britain, CT
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Bibliography
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The Nude Male, 21st Century Visions.
David Leddick. Rizzoli, New York, 2008
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The Romantic Male Nude.
James Spada. Abrams, New York, 2007
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Like Sand from Orchids' Lips.
Anthology. TCB-Cafe Publishing, San Francisco, 2006
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Naked Women.
Phil Braham. Running Press, Philadelphia, 2001
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Male Nude Now.
David Leddick, Editor. Universe, New York, 2001
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Emerging Bodies, Nudes from the Polaroid Collections.
Barbara Hitchcock, Editor. Edition Stemmle, Zurich & New York, 2000
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Karin Rosenthal: Twenty Years of Photographs.
Photographs by Karin Rosenthal. Text by Ronald L. Crusan, Arno Minkkinen. Danforth Museum of Art, Framingham, MA, 2000
(photo-eye Cat# ZD216)
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Eros.
Anthology. Stewart, Tabori, and Chang, New York, 1996
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Male Nudes by Women: An Anthology.
Peter Weiermair & John Southard, Editors. Edition Stemmle, Frankfurt, 1995
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The Journal of Erotica, Volume One.
Anthology. Midsummer Books, London, 1992
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Frauen Sehen Manner.
Anthology. Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt, 1988
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The Hidden Image.
Peter Weiermair, Editor. MIT Press, Cambridge, 1988
(photo-eye Cat# OP049)
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Il Nudo Maschile Nella Fotografia del XIX e del XX Sec.
Anthology. Edizioni Essegi, Ravenna, 1987
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Encyclopedia of Photography.
International Center of Photography. Crown Publishers, New York, 1984
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Les Nouveaux Nus.
Anthology. Contrejour, Paris, 1981
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Education
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1963 - 1967
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Wellesley College, B.A. Biology, Minor in History of Art
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1965
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Rochester Institute of Technology, Summer Course in Photography
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1970 - 1972
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Museum of Fine Arts School, Boston, Studied Photography
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2008 - 2017
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Women's Studies Research Center, Brandeis University, Resident Scholar/Artist
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Favorite Photography Books
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Within This Garden,
Ruth Thorne-Thomsen,
(photo-eye Cat# AP296)
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The New Landscape in Art and Science,
Gyorgy Kepes
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The Eternal Body,
Ruth Bernhard
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