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Mariana Cook (born 1955) is an American fine art photographer specializing in black and white photography and gelatin silver prints. Cook is the last surviving protégée of Ansel Adams. Her work has been exhibited in several renowned institutions, such as the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Modern Art, the J. Paul Getty Museum, the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, the National Portrait Gallery, the Bibliothèque Nationale, and the Musee d'Art Moderne. She is perhaps most widely known for her black and white portrait, A Couple in Chicago, which captures a young Barack and Michelle Obama in their 1996 Hyde Park apartment, and the accompanying interview for the New Yorker.

Notable Photographs

 * The New Yorker, January 19, 2009 Issue. "Portfolio by Mariana Cook: a Couple in Chicago."