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Home > Contents > People > Photographers > Consuelo Kanaga

Names:
Other: Konsuelo Kanaga 
Dates:  1894, 25 May - 1978, 28 February
Born:  US, OR, Astoria
Died:  US, NY, Mount Kisco
Active:  US
Gender:  Female
 
  
Perhaps most noted for her strong portraits.

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Family history 
  
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Internet biographies

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Getty Research, Los Angeles, USA has an ULAN (Union List of Artists Names Online) entry for this photographer. This is useful for checking names and they frequently provide a brief biography. Go to website
 

Printed biographies

The following books are useful starting points to obtain brief biographies but they are not substitutes for the monographs on individual photographers.

 
• Auer, Michele & Michel 1985 Encyclopedie Internationale Des Photographes de 1839 a Nos Jours / Photographers Encylopaedia International 1839 to the present (Hermance, Editions Camera Obscura) 2 volumes [A classic reference work for biographical information on photographers.] 
  
• Heyman, Theres Thau 1992 Seeing Straight: Group f.64 (California: The Oakland Museum) p.152 
  
• International Center of Photography 1999 Reflections in a Glass Eye: Works from the International Center of Photography Collection (New York: A Bulfinch Press Book) p.219 [Includes a well written short biography on Consuelo Kanaga with example plate(s) earlier in book.] 
  
 

Useful printed stuff

If there is an analysis of a single photograph or a useful self portrait I will highlight it here.

 
• Lahs-Gonzales, Olivia & Lippard, Lucy 1997 Defining Eye: Women Photographers of the 20th Century. Selections from the Helen Kornblum Collection (Saint Louis Art Museum, D.A.P.) [Consuelo Kanaga is included in this overview of women photographers.] 
  
 
  
 
  
 
  
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