Laura McPhee
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Laura McPhee (Born New York City, NY, 1958) is a Boston-based, portraiture and documentary photographer. She is the daughter of award winning author John McPhee.
McPhee earned a Bachelor of Arts in Art History from Princeton University in 1980, and an Master of Fine Arts degree in Photography from the Rhode Island School of Design in 1986. McPhee was awarded a Fulbright Scholars fellowship in 1998 for work in India and Sri Lanka. She was also awarded a New England Foundation of the Arts fellowship in 1995 and a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation fellowship in 1993.
In 2006, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston mounted a solo exhibit of her work, entitled River of No Return. The exhibit captures two years in Sawtooth Valley in rural Idaho and was underwritten by the Alturas Foundation, which also selected Laura McPhee as an artist-in-residence.
McPhee is a Professor of Photography at the Massachusetts College of Art.
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- No Ordinary Land, Laura McPhee & Virginia Beahan published by Aperture, New York (1998)
Laura McPhee is represented by the Bernard Toale Gallery, Boston MA
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She is also represented by the Bonni Benrubi Gallery in NYC.
