Caroline Valenta (27 May 1924 – 20 February 2013) was an American photojournalist. [1] [2] [3] She was born in 1924 in Shiner, Texas. [2] She attended the University of Houston, but left in 1945, at the end of her senior year, to take a full-time staff photographer position at the Houston Post. [4] She was the first woman photographer employed by the paper, [1] where she worked for eight years starting in 1945. [2] [5] Vlaneta gained international recognition for her photographs of the Texas City disaster in 1947. [1] [2]
Her work was included in the 1949 exhibition The Exact Instant at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. [6]
Her work is included in the collection of the Museum of Fine Arts Houston. [7]
References
- ^ a b c "Trailblazing Photojournalist Caroline Valenta Dies February 20". 27 East. The Express News Group. 25 February 2013. Retrieved 26 July 2022.
- ^ a b c d "Caroline Valenta". The Sag Harbor Express. 8 March 2013. Archived from the original on 5 October 2021.
- ^ Kitchen, Patricia (26 February 2013). "Pioneering photog Caroline Valenta dies". Newsday. Archived from the original on 5 October 2021.
- ^ "Caroline Valenta, News Photographer". East Hampton Star. 28 February 2013. Retrieved 26 July 2022.
- ^ Gonzales, J. R. (16 June 2009). "Caroline Valenta: In words and pictures". Bayou City History.
- ^ "Caroline Valenta". The Museum of Modern Art. Retrieved 26 July 2022.
- ^ "Caroline Valenta: Texas City Disaster". Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.
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