Jeannette Klute (1918 – 2009) 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.
[1] She remained a student in the program until 1939, then returned to take classes in advanced photographic technologies and color processes in 1944.
"[1] 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.
[2] She also helped develop a process named “derivations," a more abstract style with saturated color and line.
Klute organized the images by season and accompanied them with poetry to elicit an emotional response from the viewer.
[10] She co-founded the Naples Open Studio Trail, which displayed local artists' work to the public.