Laury A. Egan

Born in 1950, Laury A. Egan grew up in Atlantic Highlands and Rumson, NJ. Her initial art instruction was from her mother, Agnes Ricks Egan, one of the first members of the Guild of Creative Art and a notable national painter. Ms. Egan received a BFA in graphic design/photography from Carnegie Mellon University and later studied with Sam Abell, a senior National Geographic photographer. In 1985, she set up a color darkroom and began a freelance photography/book design business. During the next years, her photographs appeared on numerous book jackets and covers, magazines, and as book illustrations, including her solo outing in The Wines and Wineries of the Hudson River Valley. She soon expanded her business into live theatre and opera photography, working for the Opera Company of Philadelphia, most Lincoln Center venues, McCarter Theatre, Two River Theater Company, and for Plácido Domingo’s organization (at the Met and Kennedy Center) on behalf of severely disabled children. In 1992, Ms. Egan photographed the world premiere of Philip Glass’ The Voyage at the Met and sold to all the singers and to Mr. Glass for his archives.

          After mastering darkroom technique, Ms. Egan began exhibiting fine arts photographs throughout the tri-state area, at galleries in New York City, Princeton, Woodstock, Jersey City, Trenton, Brielle, New Hope, Red Bank, Allenhurst, and at the Guild of Creative Art, where she was one of the first photographic exhibiting members. Her images are in the permanent collection of the Montclair Art Museum, Graphic Arts Library of Princeton University, Southern Methodist University, and the Monmouth County Historical Association.

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