Gretchen Garner (December 27, 1939 – February 15, 2017)[1] was an American art historian, curator, writer, teacher, and self-taught photographer.
[4] While working as a photographer, photo editor, and instructor Garner raised two children in Chicago and Evanston, Illinois.
During Garner's later life, she continued to write scholarly articles, exhibition catalogs and books.
From there, Garner transferred to Moore College of Art and Design to become an Academic Dean until 1997.
Her exhibition Reclaiming Paradise: American Women Photograph the Land (1987) was widely popular, traveling to thirteen different location sites within two years.