Liliane de Cock
Liliane de Cock | |
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| Born | 11 September, 1939 |
| Died | 25 May, 2013 |
| Nationality | American |
| Occupation | photographer |
Liliane de Cock Morgan (September 11, 1939 — May 25, 2013) was a Belgian-born American photographer who won a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1972, and was assistant to Ansel Adams.
Early life
Liliane de Cock was born near Antwerp, Belgium and spent much of her early childhood in an orphanage to be protected from bombs during World War II. She worked in factories as a teenager, including a factory that made photographic materials; she moved to America at age 21, in 1960.[1]
Career
Liliane de Cock was photographic assistant to Ansel Adams from 1963 to 1972, especially on Fiat Lux, a book of photographs marking the centennial of the University of California.[2] In 1972, she became a Guggenheim fellow[3] and began showing her own work in New York. Adams wrote the introduction to her first book of photographs in 1973.[4] Her photographs were also exhibited at the George Eastman House, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and the Amon Carter Museum of American Art in the 1970s.
After her marriage, she edited photography books for publication, judged photography competitions,[5] and was a photographic printer. Her last solo exhibition was in Belgium in 1991. She was recognized as one of "the most important female photographers alive" in 1996.[6]
Personal life
Liliane de Cock married publisher Douglas O. Morgan,[7] in 1972, at a ceremony performed in Ansel Adams' home in Carmel, California. Her mother-in-law was dance photographer Barbara Morgan. They had one son, Willard, and divorced in 1993.[1]
She retired in 2010, and died from cancer in 2013, at Wiscasset, Maine, age 73.[8] Works by Liliane de Cock are held in the collections of the Norton Simon Museum,[9] Pasadena Museum of California Art, Dallas Museum of Art,[10] and the Amon Carter Museum of American Art.
References
- ^ a b "Obituary: Liliane de Cock Morgan, Photographer" Bedford Pound Ridge Record Review (2013).
- ^ Mary Street Alinder, Ansel Adams: A Biography (Bloomsbury 2014): 236-237. ISBN 9781620408018
- ^ John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, Fellows directory.
- ^ Liliane de Cock, Photographs (Morgan & Morgan 1973). ISBN 9780871000385
- ^ Irving Desfor, "Women Photographers Show Work" Mansfield News-Journal (November 2, 1975): 27. via Newspapers.com
- ^ Guy Trebay, "All Together Now" New York Magazine (November 4, 1996): 44-45.
- ^ Steven Heller, "Douglas Morgan, a Collector of Typefaces, Dies at 75" New York Times (December 24, 2007).
- ^ Beth Brogan, "Remembering Photographer Liliane de Cock Morgan, Assistant to Ansel Adams" Bangor Daily News (May 30, 2013).
- ^ Liliane de Cock, "Wall, So. Colorado" (1968), Norton Simon Museum.
- ^ Liliane de Cock, "Trees and Canal near Bruges, Belgium" Dallas Museum of Art.
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