Carl Chiarenza (born 1935) is an American art photographer.
From 1979, he has worked entirely in the studio, creating abstract compositions using materials such as torn paper and aluminum foil.
Chiarenza was born in Rochester, New York in 1935,[1] to parents that had immigrated there from Italy.
[2] He studied with Minor White and Ralph Hattersley at the Rochester Institute of Technology.
[3] Chiarenza's photographs have been shown in more than 80 solo exhibitions and more than 250 group exhibitions, starting in 1957,[2] and are in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, the Art Institute of Chicago, the George Eastman Museum, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art,[3] as well as many other institutions.