The Amon Carter Museum in Fort worth has been awarded a $75,000 grant from the National Endowmwnt for the Humanities. The grant will allow the museum to put 22,000 photographic prints and 200,000 negatives online, by eight prominent American photographers of the 20th century: Carlotta Corpron (1901–1988), Nell Dorr (1893–1988), Laura Gilpin (1891–1979), Eliot Porter (1901–1990), Helen Post (1907–1979), Clara Sipprell (1885–1975), Erwin E. Smith (1886–1947) and Karl Struss (1886–1981). The project is expected to take about two years.
Amon Carter gets $75,000 to Digitize American Photographers from NEH
by Bill Davenport
May 16, 2012
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