KEVIN MOORE is an independent scholar and curator of both museum exhibitions and private collections. His work focuses on the history of photography and contemporary art. He earned a Ph.D. in art history in 2002 from Princeton University and has worked in curatorial departments at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University. His most recent book is Starburst: Color Photography in America 1970-1980 (2010), which opened as a traveling exhibition at the Cincinnati Art Museum in February 2010. He is also the author of Jacques Henri Lartigue: The Invention of an Artist (2004) and co-author, with Michael Lorenzini, of New York Rises: Photographs by Eugene de Salignac (2007), as well as a contributing author to The Oxford Companion to the Photograph (2005); L’Art de la photographie: 1839 à nos jours (2007); American Paintings at Harvard, Volume Two (2008); More Than One: Photographs in Sequence (2008); Words Without Pictures (2009); From Diversion to Subversion: Games Play, and Twentieth-Century Art (2011); and Robert Heinecken: Copywork (2012).
