Exhibit Celebrates Look Magazine's First Female Photographer

Charlotte Brooks joined the magazine in 1951.

Opening today at the Davis Museum at Wellesley College in Massachusetts and running through Dec. 18, “Charlotte Brooks at Look, 1951-1971” honors the legacy of a true pioneer.

As Time magazine History and Archives editor Lily Roth and photo editor Lizabeth Ronk note in a piece about Brooks, when she started as Look’s first female full-time photographer, she was tasked with relatively benign assignments. But as the times changed, her purview became broader and and more meaningful:

As the relative stability of the 1950s gave way to the upheaval of the 1960s, Brooks chronicled the transformation from the inside.

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