Education
Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey MA/PhD in Art History, 1997/2002 Dissertation: “Jacques-Henri Lartigue: Invention of an Artist”
University of Missouri, Kansas City, Missouri MA in Art History, 1996
Thesis: “Photography at Standing Rock”
William Jewell College, Liberty, Missouri BA in English Literature, 1987
St. Peter’s College, Oxford University, Oxford, England English Literature, 1985-1986 Art Museum
Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts Henry Luce Foundation Research Associate, American Art, 2002-2004
Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts Curatorial Assistant, Department of Photographs, 2002
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Chester Dale Fellow, Department of Photographs, 1999-2000 The Art Museum, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey Research Assistant, Department of Photography, 1998
The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri Curatorial Assistant, Department of American Art, 1994-1995
The Hallmark Photographic Collection, Kansas City, Missouri Research Assistant, An American Century of Photography: From
Dryplate to Digital, 1993-1994
The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri Library Acquisitions, 1987-1992 Private Collections
Independent curator, New York, New York 2006 to present
Thea Westreich Art Advisory Services, New York, New York Senior Specialist in Photography, 2004-2006 Teaching
Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts Visiting Professor, “History of Photography,” spring term 2002
Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey Assistant Instructor, with Professor Hal Foster, “Modern Art: 1890-1945,”
fall term 1997
Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey Assistant Instructor/Lecturer, with Professor Peter C. Bunnell, “History of Photography,” fall term 1996
Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey Assistant Instructor, with Professor Dorothea Dietrich, “Modern Art:
1890-1945,” spring term 1996 Publications
Books
Starburst: Color Photography in America 1970-1980
(Ostfildern: Hatje Cantz, 2010)
Jacques Henri Lartigue: The Invention of an Artist
(Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2004) Books—Contributing Author
"My Utopia: Play in Bauhaus Photography," in From Diversion to
Subversion: Games, Play, and Twentieth-Century Art, ed. David
Getsy (University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2011)
“foRm,” in Words Without Pictures, eds. Charlotte Cotton and Alex
Klein (Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 2009)
“Cruising and Transcendence in the Photographs of Minor White,”
in More Than One: Photographs in Sequence, ed. Joel Smith
(Princeton/New Haven: Princeton University Art Museum/Yale
University Press, 2008)
American Paintings at Harvard, Vol. 2: Artists born 1826-1856, ed.
Theodore Stebbins (Cambridge, Mass./New Haven: Harvard Art
Museum/Yale University Press, 2008)
“La Nostalgie du moderne,” in L’Art de la photographie, eds. André Gunthert and Michel Poivert (Paris: Mazenod, 2007)
“A Ragged Order,” in New York Rises: Photographs by Eugene de Salignac
(New York: Aperture, 2007)
“Persistence,” in Jackie Nickerson: Faith (Dublin, 2006)
“Photography’s Advocate: Peter Bunnell,” in Associations
(New York: PPP Editions, 2006)
The Oxford Companion to the Photograph, ed. Robin Lenman
(Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005)
“The Critical Fortune of Lartigue,” in Lartigue: The Album of a Century
(Paris: Pompidou/Abrams, 2003) Articles
“foRm,” Words Without Pictures (Feb 2008), (LACMA)
“Lost and Found,” book review of Michel Frizot and Cédric de Veigy,
Photo Trouvée, in History of Photography (spring 2008)
“’Visual Machines’ by a Bauhaus Artist,” book review of Elizabeth Otto,
Tempo, Tempo: The Bauhaus Photomontages of Marianne Brandt, in History
of Photography (spring 2007)
“Lartigue et la naissance du modernisme en photographie,”
Etudes photographiques (July 2003)
“Alex S. MacLean: The Measures of Landscape,” AV Monographs
(Sept-Oct 2001)
“Eyes in the Sky: Alex MacLean and the Tradition of Aerial Imagery,” Cite
(summer 2000)
“Digital Imaging: A Select Bibliography,” History of Photography
(winter 1996)
Book Review of Richard Jensen et al., Eyewitness at Wounded Knee,
in History of Photography (spring 1993)
Book Review of Bill Jay, Cyanide & Spirits, in History of Photography
(summer 1993)
Book Review of Graham Clarke, ed., The Portrait in Photography, in
History of Photography (fall 1993) Lectures and Appearances
"Gasoline Rainbow" [color photography in America 1970-1980], Ecole
des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris, 2011
"Gasoline Rainbow" [color photography in America 1970-1980],
Princeton University, 2010
“Lartigue Among Amateurs,” Colgate University, Hamilton, NY, 2008
“Lartigue entre amateurs,” Histoire de l’art du XIXe siècle, Musée d’Orsay,
Ecole du Louvre, Paris, 2007
The Genius of Photography, BBC series on the History of Photography, 2007 “My Utopia: Play in Bauhaus Photography,” College Art Association,
Boston, Mass., 2006
BBC documentary on Lartigue, 2004
“Lartigue and the Hunt for Denatured Elegance,” Williams College,
Williamstown, Mass., 2004
“Lartigue at MOMA,” University of Toronto, 2002
“Jacques-Henri Lartigue: Invention of an Artist for the History of
Photography,” The Frick Symposium, New York, 2000, and The
Metropolitan Museum of Art Fellows Symposium, New York, 2000
“European Photography Between the World Wars,” Princeton University,
1996
“Henry Ossawa Tanner and the French Art World,” The Nelson-Atkins
Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri, 1995
“Julia Margaret Cameron’s Photographic Illustrations to Tennyson’s
‘Idylls of the King,’” The St. Louis Art Museum, 1995
“Photography at Standing Rock: The Conception Abbey Collection,”
The University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas, 1995 Fellowships and Awards
Whiting Foundation, grant for completion of dissertation, 2000-2001
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Chester Dale Fellow,
Department of Photographs, 1999-2000
Fulbright Commission, grant for dissertation research in Paris, France,
1998-1999
Institut Français de Washington, grant for dissertation research in
Paris, France, summer 1997
Mellon Foundation, grant for language study, 1997
Princeton University, full funding for five-year doctoral program, 1995-2002 References
Peter C. Bunnell (dissertation advisor), Princeton University, Princeton,
New Jersey
Sandra Phillips, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco,
California
Maria Morris Hambourg, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Peter Galassi, The Museum of Modern Art, New York
