A "photography curator" is a person who takes care of a collection of photographs. They choose which photos should be displayed in exhibitions, organize and preserve them, and sometimes provide explanations or context for the photos. Full definition
Last night Matthew S. Witkovsky, the chief photography curator at the Art Institute of Chicago, stood on his museum's stage and introduced a panel of friends and colleagues of the late Pictures generation photographer Sarah Charlesworth, who died in June 2013... Read More (artnews.com)
As photography curator of the Museum of Modern Art MoMA in New York, he organized the famous exhibition «The Family of Man ``. (vernissage.tv)
Artists kept playing catch - up as color increasingly swamped popular culture and amateur photography; many came to take their cues from both, and in 1976 Museum of Modern Art photography curator John Szarkowski gave William Eggleston a major solo exhibition for his now - iconic photos combining a snapshot aesthetic with a mastery of the dye imbibition process that «allowed Eggleston to draw attention to color without making it the subject of the photograph,» Rohrbach writes. (artsandculturetx.com)