Caroline Valenta (27 May 1924 – 20 February 2013) was an American photojournalist.[1][2][3] She was born in 1924 in Shiner, Texas.[2] She attended the University of Houston, but left in 1945, at the end of her senior year, to take a full-time staff photographer position at the Houston Post.[4] She was the first woman photographer employed by the paper,[1] where she worked for eight years starting in 1945.[2][5] Vlaneta gained international recognition for her photographs of the Texas City disaster in 1947.[1][2]
Her work was included in the 1949 exhibition The Exact Instant at the Museum of Modern Art in New York.[6]
Her work is included in the collection of the Museum of Fine Arts Houston.[7]
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