Carolee Campbell

Born and raised in Los Angeles, Carolee Campbell spent her early career in theater. She worked with Uta Hagen and the prestigious Actors Studio headed by Lee Strasberg before joining the cast of the television soap opera "The Doctors", where she starred as the popular character Carolee Simpson for nine years. After receiving an Emmy Award for best actress in 1976, she decided to quit acting in order to pursue a more rigorous artistic life, working at first with photography, especially 19th-century processes. After taking up bookbinding, her interest turned to hand-held art and to melding the two within the book form. This led to the launch of Ninja Press, dedicated to fine press printing and literature. Her work has been exhibited and collected widely at institutions including UCLA, the Getty Research Institute, New York Public Library, Yale University, Houghton Library at Harvard University, and Bodleian Library.

On Exhibit

The Real World of Manuel Cordova
Sherman Oaks, 1995
Letterpress on handmade paper