Carlotta Corpron (December 9, 1901 – April 17, 1988) was an American photographer known for her abstract compositions featuring light and reflections, made mostly during the 1940s and 1950s.

[3] She went on to study fabric design and art education at Columbia University's Teachers College, gaining her master's degree the following year.

[1] In the summer of 1936, Corpron decided to refine her photographic techniques at the Art Center in Los Angeles in preparation for teaching a photography course.

[10] In 1933, Corpron took up black-and-white photography and was initially interested in it as tool for taking photographs of natural forms for use in textile design courses.

[1][11] Her highly abstract aesthetic was influenced by the photograms of Man Ray and László Moholy-Nagy, who visited Denton in 1942 to teach a light workshop.

[1][12] Around the same time, the artist György Kepes came to Denton to write a book,[3] and he helped expand her repertoire, introducing Corpron to a range of modernist techniques including double exposures and solarization.

[2][13] Her imaginative and "ultramodern"[14] investigations of light broke new ground in photographic technique[15] and established her reputation as a pioneer of American abstract photography[16] and a leader of what one scholar has termed the "Texas Bauhaus.