Laura Gilpin
Laura Gilpin (1891-1979), whose career spanned more than 70 years, became widely known for her photographs of the Southwestern landscape and Navajo people.
The Amon Carter Museum houses over 6,000 of Gilpin’s prints, as well as 20,000 negatives and her personal library and papers, including correspondence with contemporaries such as Georgia O’Keefe. You can browse the collection, as well as watch a video and hear a brief audio essay, here.
https://www.cartermuseum.org/artists/laura-gilpin
Watch a New Mexico PBS documentary celebrating Gilpin’s life and photographs, here.