Biografie von Clarence John LAUGHLIN (1905-1985)

Birth place: Lake Charles, LA

Addresses: New Orleans, LA

Profession: Photographer

Exhibited: NOMA, 1936; Julian Levy Gal., NYC, 1940; PMA, 1946, 1973; PMG, 1949; Milwaukee Mus., 1965.

Work: Univ. Louisville holds 17,000 negatives and 17,000 prints; LOC; FMA; MMA; MoMA; NOMA; PMA; PMG.

Comments: A prolific romantic-mystic photographer; also a poet. He is best-known for his romantic architectural photographs. Publications: New Orleans and Its Living Past, 1941; Ghosts Along the Mississippi, 1948.

Sources: Witkin & London, 180; Clarence John Laughlin: The Personal Eye, with intro. by Jonathan Williams (Millerton, NY: Aperture, 1973).