Photo: Wilson Reyes
Curriculum Vitae
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
Curatorial
FotoFocus, Cincinnati
Artistic Director and Curator, 2013 to present
McEvoy Collection, San Francisco
Curator, 2008 to present
Independent curator, New York
2006 to present
Thea Westreich Art Advisory Services, New York
Senior Advisor, 2004 – 2006
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
Teaching
CUNY TV, Twilight Talks, New York
Host, 2016 – present
Parsons The New School for Design, New York, New York
Visiting Professor, “Senior Seminar Lab,” fall term 2012
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
On the Line: Documents of Risk and Faith, with Makeda Best (Gnomic Book, 2022)
Old Paris and Changing New York: Photographs by Eugène Atget and Berenice Abbott (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2018)
Real to Real: Photographs from the Traina Collection (San Francisco: de Young Museum, 2012)
Starburst: Color Photography in America 1970-1980 (Ostfildern: Hatje Cantz, 2010)
Jacques Henri Lartigue: The Invention of an Artist (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2004; French edition, 2012; Polish edition, 2015)
Books
-- Contributing Author
Elaine Mayes: Haight-Ashbury Portraits 1967-1968 (Damiani, 2022)
“Marks on Homes,” in Ian Strange: Disturbed Home (Damiani, 2022)
“There For All to See,” in Marco Anelli, Tino: Nivola in America (Silvana Editoriale/Magazzino, 2021)
"Emulsion Society," in Lincoln Kirstein's Modern (Museum of Modern Art, 2019)
"A Certain Slant," in Mamma Andersson: Memory Banks (Damiani, 2018)
"German Humor," in No Two Alike: Karl Blossfeldt, Francis Bruguière, Thomas Ruff, ed. Ulrike Meyer Stump (Verlag für Moderne Kunst, 2018)
Roe Ethridge: Neighbors (Mack, 2016)
"The Studio and the Snapshot," in Photography at MoMA: 1920-1960 (Museum of Modern Art, 2016)
Eric Boman: A Wandering Eye (Damiani, 2016)
“Three Constructivists,” in Lightning Tree, by Taiyo Onorato and Nico Krebs (Cincinnati: Contemporary Arts Center, 2014)
American Paintings at Harvard, Vol. One, eds. Theodore Stebbins and Melissa Renn (Cambridge, Mass./New Haven: Harvard Art Museum/Yale University Press, 2014)
"Times Ten: Elena Dorfman's Post-Industrial Abstractions," in Elena Dorfman: Empire Falling (Bologna: Damiani, 2013)
“Lartigue entre amateurs,” in Histoire de l’art du XIXe siècle (1848-1914): Bilans et perspectives, Conference proceedings, Ecole du Louvre-Musée d’Orsay, 13-15 Sept. 2007 (Paris: Ecole du Louvre, 2012)
“No Crime Involved—But With That Assumption,” in Robert Heinecken(London: Ridinghouse, 2012)
“How is the World? A Conversation between Paul Graham & Kevin Moore,” in Paul Graham, Europe: America (Santander: Fundación Botín, 2011)
“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. Two: 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
“The Baroness and the Bird,” The Lacanian Review (Spring 2021)
“The Allure and Pitfalls of Seeing Photographs—and the World—in Isolation,” The Photograph Collector (Sept. 2020)
“Photographs are the Monuments of Our Online Visual Culture,” The Art Newspaper (July 10, 2020)
“Why Some Protest Photographs Transcend the Moment They Capture and Make Social Movements Iconic,” Artnet News (June 11, 2020)
"Whipping up a storm: How Robert Mapplethorpe shocked America," The Guardian, Nov. 17, 2015
“David Benjamin Sherry,” in Aperture 218 (Spring 2015)
"Peter Piller: Umschläge," Else 6 (2013)
“Type A: Trigger,” Else 4 (2012)
“Readymade in America: Taiyo Onorato and Nico Krebs,” Foam Magazine #31 (Summer 2012)
“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)
Exhibitions Curated
On the Line: Documents of Risk and Faith, co-curated with Makeda Best, Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, 2022
Tony Oursler: Crossing Neptune, Michael Lowe Gallery, Cincinnati, 2022
Ian Strange: Disturbed Home, Art Academy of Cincinnati, 2022
True Blue Mirror: Ellen Berkenblit and Sarah Braman, McEvoy Foundation for the Arts, San Francisco, 2019
Paris to New York: Photographs by Eugène Atget and Berenice Abbott, Taft Museum of Art, Cincinnati, 2018
Mamma Andersson: Memory Banks, Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, 2018
Stories: Phillip-Lorca diCorcia and Constance DeJong, McEvoy Foundation for the Arts, San Francisco, 2018
la mère la mer, McEvoy Foundation for the Arts, San Francisco, 2018
Roe Ethridge: Nearest Neighbor, Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, 2016
New Slideshow, Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, 2016
Zanele Muholi: Personae, National Underground Railroad Freedom Center, Cincinnati, 2016
Jackie Nickerson: August, National Underground Railroad Freedom Center, Cincinnati, 2016
Robin Rhode: Three Films, National Underground Railroad Freedom Center, Cincinnati, 2016
After Industry, Weston Art Gallery, Cincinnati, 2016
Taiyo Onorato & Nico Krebs: The One-Eyed Thief, Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, 2014
David Benjamin Sherry: Western Romance, 1500 Elm, Cincinnati, 2014
Stills, co-curated with Nion McEvoy, Michael Lowe Gallery, Cincinnati, 2014
Vivian Maier: A Quiet Pursuit, 1400 Elm, Cincinnati, 2014
FotoGram@ArtHub, Washington Park, Cincinnati, 2014
Screenings, Paris Photo Los Angeles, and Lightborne Studios, Cincinnati, 2014
Panopticum, Robert Miller Gallery, New York, 2014
Eve Plays Duchamp, Brancolini Grimaldi, London, 2013
Alchemical, Steven Kasher Gallery, New York, 2013
Real to Real: Photographs from the Traina Collection, de Young Museum, San Francisco, 2012
Starburst: Color Photography in America 1970-1980, Cincinnati Art Museum, 2010; Princeton Art Museum, 2010
Lectures + Appearances
“The Kirstein Diaries,” The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 2019
“Passeurs and Sites of Passage: Curating in the Expanded Field,” Ryerson University, Toronto, 2014
"The Road to Taiyo & Nico," le Bal, Paris, 2013
Paris Photo Platform, Paris, 2012
“Gasoline Rainbow” [color photography in America 1970-1980], Terra Foundation/Université de Paris, Diderot, Paris, 2012
“Gasoline Rainbow” [color photography in America 1970-1980], Bruce Museum, Greenwich, CT, 2011
“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 + 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
Makeda Best, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, Mass. Jeff
Rosenheim, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Paul Roth, Ryerson Image Center, Toronto