Jeannette Klute was an American photographer who helped develop the Dye-transfer process at the Eastman Kodak Company and is credited with demonstrating the artistic possibilities of color photography.
15 Facts About Jeannette Klute
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Jeannette Klute was born in Rochester, New York in 1918.
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Jeannette Klute graduated from high school in 1936, then enrolled at the Mechanics' Institute in Rochester, where she took classes in the Photographic Technology department.
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Jeannette Klute was one of three women in her photography classes, where she studied photographic processes and materials, chemistry, physics, and retouching with the goal of working at the local Eastman Kodak Company.
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Jeannette Klute remained a student in the program until 1939, then returned to take classes in advanced photographic technologies and color processes in 1944.
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Jeannette Klute later earned a bachelor's of science degree from the University of Rochester.
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Jeannette Klute began working at Kodak in October 1938 as a lab assistant, one of the few positions available to women at the time.
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For much of her career, Klute worked as a photographic illustrator for physicist Ralph M Evans, illustrating many of his lectures, articles, and books, including An Introduction to Color, a seminal text on modern color science.
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Jeannette Klute hired women for most of the Studio's research photographer and technician positions, which was unprecedented.
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Jeannette Klute often carried her large format camera into the woods and used a shallow depth of field to document the local flora and fauna of the New York Finger Lakes region.
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In 1954, Jeannette Klute published a deluxe book of her work titled Woodland Portraits.
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Jeannette Klute organized the images by season and accompanied them with poetry to elicit an emotional response from the viewer.
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Jeannette Klute retired from Kodak in 1982 and took up painting.
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Jeannette Klute co-founded the Naples Open Studio Trail, which displayed local artists' work to the public.
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Jeannette Klute died August 3,2009 at her home in Honeoye, New York.