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Laurie Brown (photographer)

American photographer (born 1937)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMar 10, 2026
Entity authorityQ107987106 ↗
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Laurie Brown (born 1937) is an American photographer sometimes associated with the New Topographics genre.

Her work is included in the collections of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Museum of Fine Arts Houston, the Philadelphia Museum of Art and the Museum of Fine Arts Houston.

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Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1937—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1937. The account is most persuasive where Laurie, Brown and photographer can be independently traced.
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This entry incorporates text from “Laurie Brown (photographer)” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.