Carolyn Brown ’58 comfortably resides in unusual spaces. In 1969, when Brown began her career in photography, a woman trying to carve out a career in a male-dominated field wasn’t exactly the norm. The places she traveled with a camera in hand are all the more striking, as her photographs reveal.
For a young woman from the northeast farming community of Fort Morgan, Colorado, she points to her travels as the fire that helped her grow and evolve.
“The fact that she is a tall, dramatically red-haired American created somewhat of a stir as she entered mosques or monasteries, but her charm, easy way of dealing with diverse people, and energetic enthusiasm more often than not won the day, and diverse administrators, priests, and other officials allowed her to set up her tripod and spend the time it takes to arrive at a perfectly composed and calibrated photographic image,” writes Richard Brettell, the founding director of the Edith O’Donnell Institute of Art History (EODIAH) in “Carolyn Brown, A Retrospective.”
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