Karin Rosenthal, a Wellesley College graduate, studied photography at the Rochester Institute of Technology and the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston. Her work has been exhibited in galleries and museums worldwide, and is in numerous collections including the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, the Brooklyn Museum, Harvard University's Fogg Museum, the Danforth and Rose Art Museums, The International Center of Photography, Polaroid's National and International Collections, and the Allan Chasanoff Collection.

Her work been published internationally, most recently in Karin Rosenthal: Twenty Years of Photographs as well as the books Eros, Male Nudes by Women, and in View Camera, The Journal of Erotica (London), Nikon News (Switzerland), and Print magazines. Her book Karin Rosenthal: Twenty Years of Photographs, is available through the Fraser Gallery for $20.