Sentences with phrase «photography curator»

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
As photography curator of the Museum of Modern Art MoMA in New York, he organized the famous exhibition «The Family of Man ``.
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.
As MoMA chief photography curator Quentin Bajac said in a recent conversation with the museum's director, Glenn Lowry: «When John started that series in the mid - «80s, there were very few institutions dealing with photography.
Bajac and MoMA senior photography curator Roxana Marcoci (working with the assistant curator Lucy Gallun) have changed pretty much everything about the show.
Museum of Modern Art photography curator Sarah Meister tells us about the «milestone» acquisition of Sander's encyclopedic portrait series.
It includes essays on working methods and collaboration by photography curator Rebecca Senf, Norton Family Curator of Photography at the Phoenix Art Museum, and an essay by Stephen Pyne, Regents» Professor, Arizona State University, that provides a conceptual framework for understanding the history of the canyon.
While he was at the Morgan, the institution expanded its drawings department and added a focus on photography, bringing in former Princeton University Art Museum photography curator Joel Smith to head the department.
Organized by John Rohrbach, the Amon Carter's senior photography curator, Color!
Featuring historical figures such as Hannah Hoch and László Moholy - Nagy alongside contemporary artists like Vik Muniz and Wangechi Mutu, the show grew out of assistant photography curator Yasufumi Nakamori's desire to present Okanoue's work in a transnational context with Berlin Dadaist John Heartfield's scathingly satirical 1930's photomontages that warned of the coming fascist dystopia.
The Tate's new photography curator discusses and shows work from a new exhibition.
At this panel, Welling will talk about his work with Museum of Modern Art photography curator Quentin Bajac and NYU art history professor Robert Slifkin.
She is now an independent photography curator based in the UK, and the director and founder of Photo - Festivals for which she is also Programmes Coordinator.
Atlanta Photography Group Location: Atlanta Atlanta Photography Group is taking submissions for a group exhibition juried by Gregory Harris, the assistant photography curator for the High Museum of Art.
She is an established photography curator as well as the author of The Illusion of Orderly Progress, Looking at Death, and The Social Question among many other titles.
Learoyd will be in Kansas City and in conversation with Photography Curator April M. Watson in Atkins Auditorium on Friday, Feb. 17 at 6 p.m., sponsored by The Photography Society.
«It isn't what a picture is of,» the great American photography curator John Szarkowski once said.
Compiled by distinguished American photography curator Anne Wilkes Tucker, Not an Ostrich: And Other Images from America's Library, will feature rare, never - before - exhibited photographs from the Library of Congress.
Photography curator William A. Ewing showcases old favorites alongside new images from Wegman's personal archives, spanning five decades and featuring a variety of his dogs, including, of course, Man Ray and Fay Ray.
A historical survey organized by the Met's associate photography curator Douglas Eklund, the show re-examines the early work of 30 artists whom he identifies as members of the last definitive movement in 20th - century art.
Organized by Whitney's photography curator Elisabeth Sussman and then - independent curator Jay Sanders, it elevated the act of curating as an art itself, inviting artists to organize mini-shows within the ur - exhibition.
Most shows are juried by well - known photography curators, gallery owners and experts.
Swedish photography curator Fotografiska's first gallery outside Stockholm has agreed on a deal to move into property developer Derwent's new buildings in the area.
Nov14, 2016 Davis Museum Photography Curator Ileana Selejan Selected to participate in Major European Research Council Project
A highlight of the programme will be a rare opportunity to hear Don McCullin in conversation with Tate's photography curator Simon Baker on Thursday 19th May.
Co-curated by Nelson - Atkins Photography curator April M. Watson and Lisa Hostetler, Curator in Charge of the Department of Photography at the George Eastman Museum, this exhibition provides a complete understanding of Richards's career, which is deeply informed by his dedication to social and economic issues.
The exhibition will be juried by the High Museum assistant photography curator Gregory Harris, and the show will be featured in the ACP Festival Guide.
Curated by Museum of Contemporary Photography Curator Karen Irvine, Glow focuses on five artists whose work examines light in both a metaphorical and technical sense.
At the FAMSF, Cox had a major commitment to photography and was founding photography curator there, organizing shows about civil rights movement — era art, Anthony Friedkin, and Danny Lyon, whose mid-career survey memorably appeared in New York at the Whitney Museum.
Guest curator Merry Foresta, who was the Smithsonian American Art Museum's photography curator from 1983 to 1999, tours the museum's exhibit,...
«I am strongly touched by their enthusiasm,» Chen wrote to MFAH photography curator Anne Wilkes Tucker.
Moderated by FotoFocus Artistic Director Kevin Moore, the panel includes photography curators Jennifer Blessing from the Guggenheim, Paul Martineau from the Getty and Britt Salvesen from LACMA, along with NYU law professor Emily Kemplin.
Siegel's overarching achievement, as former High Museum photography curator Julian Cox notes in one of the book's essays, is his ability to convey the humanity of his subjects.
In 1976, there were more «photographs than bricks» in the world, according to the legendary photography curator John Szarkowski — and that was way before the emergence of mainstream social media.
Its installation there, guided by MOMA photography curator Peter Galassi, struck me as aggressively interpretive.
Tracing the ideas and ideals behind the founding and development of the legendary cooperative, curator Clément Chéroux, formerly photography curator at the Centre Pompidou, now senior curator of photography at SFMOMA, explores the history of the second half of the 20th century through the lens of 75 masters, providing a new and insightful perspective on the contribution of these photographers to our collective visual memory.
Right: Dealer Michele Maccarone with Art Institute of Chicago photography curator Matthew Witkovsky.
Left: Artist Catherine Opie with LACMA photography curator Britt Salvesen.
After earning a bachelor's degree from Sarah Lawrence College in 1973, Ms. Sischy worked as an intern under the eminent photography curator John Szarkowski at the Museum of Modern Art in New York.
The museum's photography curator at the time, Hugh Edwards, purchased 30 photographs from this now - legendary series for the permanent collection, and in 2000, the artist generously gifted a further 38 photographs — works that were openly personal and very different from his chronicling of the state of the country in The Americans.
It also announced Drew Sawyer, who is also white, was appointed as the new photography curator.
This spring the star billing of two retired alums from MoMA — John Elderfield, the former chief curator of painting and sculpture, and Peter Galassi, the former chief photography curator — helped draw huge crowds and critical attention to paired shows at Gagosian galleries in New York.
Julian Cox, the High Museum of Art's photography curator for the past five years, will join the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco as founding curator of photography and chief curator of the de Young Museum this fall.
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