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| LAURA GILPIN. Church of San Lorenzo, Picuris, New Mexico, 1963. |
Laura Gilpin was born on April 22, 1891, in Austin Bluffs, Colorado. In 1903. She was educated at eastern boarding schools, including the New England Conservatory of Music, and some institutions in New York.
She believed the year 1904 was a critical point in her life. Her mother sent her to visit her closest friend and Gilpin's namesake, Laura Perry, in St. Louis where the World's Fair was being held. Perry was blind, and it was Gilpin's task to describe every exhibit to her in detail. She later said "The experience taught me the kind of observation I would have never learned otherwise." So fine details showed in her photos become one of the most famous and impressive characteristics of her compositions.
Gilpin was interested in the land as an environment that shaped human activity. She thought it was a peopled landscape with a rich history and tradition of its own, an environment that shaped and molded the lives of its inhabitants. Gilpin developed her point of view on her own by the photos.
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| Sleeping Ute, Mesa Verde |
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| Playground At Day School, Colorado Springs |
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| Montezuma Valley, Mesa Verde National Park |
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| Door at Ranchos de Taos Church |
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| Mission Church, Taos |
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