Norah Carter
{{Short description|New Zealand photographer, photographic studio owner and painter (1881–1966)}}
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Norah Carter (15 April 1881 – 8 February 1966) was a New Zealand photographer.{{Cite web|url=http://canterburyphotography.blogspot.com/search?q=Norah+Carter|title=Carter, Norah |date=9 July 2016 |website=Ear;y New Zealand photographers and their successors |access-date=22 September 2018}} Her work is held in the permanent collection of the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa.{{Cite web|url=https://collections.tepapa.govt.nz/object/1387039|title=Young girl smiling |publisher=Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa |access-date=22 September 2018}}
Early life
Carter was born on 15 April 1881, to Anna Margaret Begg and Richard Carter, a customs inspector who was stationed in Napier at the time. She studied drawing and art at Wellington Technical School and in Melbourne, Australia.{{Cite book |last=Mitchell |first=Lissa |url=https://www.worldcat.org/title/on1374563763 |title=Through shaded glass: women and photography in Aotearoa New Zealand 1860-1960 |date=2023 |publisher=Te Papa Press |isbn=978-0-9951384-9-0 |location=Wellington, New Zealand |pages=85 |oclc=on1374563763}}
Career
In 1907, Carter opened a studio in Christchurch, specialising in miniature painting and photography. In 1910, she moved to Gisborne, in the North Island of New Zealand, and opened a photographic studio there. She closed the business in 1919.
Carter died in Sydney, Australia, on 8 February 1966.{{Cite web|url=https://collections.tepapa.govt.nz/agent/52971|title=Miss Norah Carter |publisher=Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa |access-date=22 September 2018}}
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Category:New Zealand photographers
Category:New Zealand women photographers
Category:19th-century New Zealand artists
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