Caroline Gurrey (née Haskins, 1875–1927) was an American photographer who worked in Hawaii at the beginning of the 20th century. She is remembered for her series on mixed-race Hawaiian children.
Biography Born in Oakland, California, Caroline Gurrey ran a successful photographic studio in Honolulu where for many years she specialized in portraiture. In 1904, she married Alfred Richard Gurrey, Jr., an art dealer and amateur photographer remembered for his photographs of surfing.Joel T. Smith, "The Surf Riders of Hawaii: A. R. Gurrey, Jr." Retrieved 13 March 2013."Gurrey, Alfred Richard", Honolulu County Biographies. Retrieved 13 March 2013. Caroline's most notable work is a set of photographs of Hawaii's mixed race children. In the summer of 1909, the photographs were exhibited at the Alaska–Yukon–Pacific Exposition in Seattle. Said to combine the Pictorialist style with ethnographic photography, they depict Hawaiian or mixed-race boys and girls. The 50 photographs displayed at the fair are now preserved in the Smithsonian's National Anthropological Archives.Heather Waldroup, "Ethnographic Pictorialism: Caroline Gurrey's Hawaiian Types at the Alaska–Yukon–Pacific Exposition" , History of Photography 36:2 (2012), 172-183. Retrieved 13 March 2013.
Caroline Gurrey died in Hawaii in 1927."Caroline Gurrey", National Gallery of Australia. Retrieved 13 March 2013.
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