- Preferred Name
Trotter, Claire
- Brief Biography
1913-1995
- Nationality
American
- Occupation
photographer; UO Museum Staff (Museum Clerk, 1977-8)
- Description
Trotter was a well-known artist from the Pacific Northwest and resided for many years here in Eugene. While her work was published extensively in journals devoted to the arts, what truly mattered to Trotter was the now less traveled path of producing gelatin silver prints by hand. Even though photography was often labeled a mechanical medium, the truth is that with all the possible variables available each hand-processed print made is still quite unique. In introductory thoughts from one of her earlier exhibitions she said: To be sensitive to the beauty that is all around us enhances the quality of our lives. In the interplay between the form and moods awakened in the sensitive viewer, a response is evoked in which the viewer becomes the co-creator. – Thom Sempere
- Related Publications
- Exhibitions
Two Oregon Photographers: An Introduction (Claire Trotter, Roger C. Aikin) subject
The Photography at Oregon Gallery: 13th Annual Auction participant/lender
