Larry Colwell

Information on Colwell taken from biography on Shirrel Rhoades:

Larry Colwell, a photographer who had been a part of Edward Weston's Group f/64. Down on his luck, Colwell was working as a portrait photographer in a small college-town photo studio. Taking the student under his wing, Colwell trained Rhoades in an approach known as purist photography, a depictive technique that rejects manipulation and aims for an objective view of reality.

Later, while working for The Florida Times-Union, Rhoades participated in weekend photography outings led by Colwell. Several members of the group became successful photographers and newspaper editors. At the same paper, Rhoades worked with Rocco Morabito, winner of 1968 Pulitzer Prize for his photo Kiss of Life.

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Larry Colwell (American, 1911-1972) studied photography at the Art Center School and the Choinard School of Art in Los Angeles from 1939 to 1941, later specializing in advertising photography while living in New York. His photographs appeared regularly in such publications as Time, Life, Harper's Bazaar, Vogue, U.S. Camera, American Photography, Camera (Switzerland) and Aperture. He joined the Photo League, and his work appeared in League exhibitions and publications. In 1950, he moved to Monterey, California, where he met such influential photographers as Edward and Brett Weston, Ansel Adams, Wynn Bullock, Imogen Cunningham, and Ruth Bernhard. Colwell taught creative photography at the Jacksonville Art Museum from 1964 to 1968, then served as instructor of photography at the Silvermine College of Art in New Canaan, Connecticut, until 1971.His work in collections includes: Center for Creative Photography (Tucson, AZ), San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, New Orleans Museum of Art, Hallmark Photographic Collection (Kansas City, MO), George Eastman House (Rochester, NY), Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, etc.