Carmel Vitullo

Carmel Vitullo (b. 1925) was born in Providence. She went to Classical High School, where she was a member of the camera club. She studied painting at the Rhode Island School of Design for two years (1943-45) before deciding to switch to photography. Since RISD didn’t offer photography at the time, she moved to New York to attend the New York Institute of Photography.  From the 1950s on, Vitullo worked as a freelance and commercial photographer for several different studios, including the Brown University Photo Lab between 1955 and 1959, around the time that the photographs in this exhibition were taken. Her photographs have been included in exhibitions at the Museum of Modern Art in New York (1955), RISD Museum of Art (1959), Providence Public Library (1969 and 1972), Newport Art Museum (2004) and the Bert Gallery in Providence (2004, 2006 and 2009). Vitullo retired in 1990 and lives in Johnston.