Catherine DeLattre (b. 1949, Monongahela, Pennsylvania)
Catherine DeLattre grew up in Monongahela, Pennsylvania, a small town near the heavily industrial area of Pittsburg. In the late 1960s and early 1970s, she studied archaeology at Kent State where a course in basic photography was a requirement for recording in archaeological digs. That later led her to the Art Photography MA at Purdue University where the focus was on black-and-white photography, but where DeLattre became more interested in color under the influence of her teacher Vern Cheek, and the then contemporary color work of photographers such as William Eggleston, Joe Maloney, Joel Meyerowitz, Jan Groover, Eve Sonneman, and Joel Sternfeld. After a series of teaching gigs that took her from Rockport, Maine to Poughkeepsie, by 1979 DeLattre had saved enough money to move to New York City where she found a $200/month subet on the Upper West Side and a part-time job teaching darkroom at the International Center of Photography.
DeLattre lives and works in New York City and Pennsylvania.
Catherine DeLattre
From the series: Interiors, 1977-78, Monongahela, Pennsylvania, 2024
Archival digital inkjet print on Hahnemuhle Baryta 325 GSM
22.50 x 22.50 inches
Catherine DeLattre
From the series: Shoppers, Broadway, Upper West Side, NYC, 1979-80, 2023
Archival digital inkjet print on Hahnemuhle Baryta 325 GSM
15 x 15 inches
Courtesy of the artist
Catherine DeLattre
From the series: Shoppers, Broadway, Upper West Side, NYC, 1979-80, 2023
Archival digital inkjet print on Hahnemuhle Baryta 325 GSM
15 x 15 inches
Courtesy of the artist
Catherine DeLattre
From the series: Wayne County, North East Pennsylvania, 2018-2023, 2023
Archival digital inkjet print on Hahnemuhle Baryta 325 GSM
13 x 19 inches
Courtesy of the artist
Selected Exhibitions
Catherine DeLattre: Shoppers and Interiors
OSMOS Station, Stamford, NY
July 5th - August, 2025
Catherine DeLattre: Shoppers, Broadway Upper West Side, NYC, 1979-80 and other corners
Abraham et Wolff, Paris, France
Commissariat Cay Sophie Rabinowitz, OSMOS, New York, NY
October 30 – November 30, 2024
Catherine DeLattre: Shoppers, Broadway Upper West Side, NYC, 1979-80