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Caroline Hickman Vaughan
Her studies in photography also allowed her to work with Murray Riss at North Carolina's Penland School in 1970 and John Menapace in 1974. Vaughan graduated from Duke in 1971 and immediately traveled to San Francisco to meet Imogen Cunningham, her heroine. They struck up a friendship, which involved correspondence and a return trip. Vaughan balanced the influence of Imogen Cunningham and her complete opposite, Minor White, during the next years of her study. During 1971-72 she participated in a program of intensive study with Minor White at M.I.T. She was the only female among his seven students for that academic year and received what was to be her most influential instruction in the technical and spiritual nature of her chosen art form. Her highly personal history of making photographic images includes traversing North America, logging more than 75,000 miles to capture the vastness of nature's space. At the other extreme, she has worked quietly, very close to home, photographing members of her own family for more than twenty years, as if the universe could be found in their faces and their gestures, in her attempt to interpret the natural world and its human inhabitants. In 2007, she returned to the Penland to teach a course in the portrait, the self-portrait, the psychological portrait in landscape, and the portrait as metaphor.
Books by Caroline Vaughan Quartet (2005)
Links http://www.carolinevaughan.com/
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Caroline Hickman Vaughan grew up and attended public schools in Durham, North Carolina, and spent four summers at Western Carolina College taking language and advanced classes to supplement her public education. In 1967, her first year of college, Vaughan was admitted to the course of study in Duke University's creative writing program, where she studied narrative writing from Reynolds Price and the late William Blackburn. During her college experience she continued to major in English but added more photography to her course curriculum in an independent study format. This additional challenge, since the school offered no photography classes, allowed her to seek out the mentorship of John Menapace, and to become one of three co-founders of the first student publication dedicated to photography as a fine art: Latent Image I was produced in her senior year when she and her co-founders invited Minor White to campus.