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The list Historians of photography includes Berenice Abbot, Julian Stallabrass, Jo Spence, Ellen Handy and Jennie Boddington. The list consists of 79 members.
  • 1.

    Berenice Abbott
    American photographer (1898–1991)
    Berenice Abbott
    Overview: Berenice Abbott (July 17, 1898 – December 9, 1991), née Bernice Alice Abbott, was an American photographer best known for her portraits of between-the-wars 20th century cultural figures, New York City ...
    Date of birth: 17 July 1898
    Date of death: 9 December 1991
    Age: 93 (age at death)
    Nationality: American
    Occupation: Photographer
    Gender: Female
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    20th-century LGBT people 3,216T
    LGBT photographers from the United States 93T
    20th-century women photographers 648T
  • 2.

    Julian Stallabrass
    British art historian, photographer and curator
    Overview: Julian Stallabrass is a British art historian, photographer and curator. He was educated at Leighton Park School and New College, Oxford University where he studied PPE (Philosophy, Politics, and Econ ...
    Nationality: British
    Occupation: Critic
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    Year of birth missing (living people) 37,022T
    Academics of the Courtauld Institute of Art 43T
    British art critics 70T
  • 3.

    Jo Spence
    British photographer
    Jo Spence
    Overview: Jo Spence (15 June 1934, London – 24 June 1992, London) was a British photographer, a writer, cultural worker, and a photo therapist. She began her career in the field of commercial photography but soon ...
    Date of birth: 1934
    Date of death: 1992
    Age: 57 (age at death)
    Nationality: British
    Occupation: Photographer
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    20th-century women photographers 594T
    20th-century British women artists 1,115T
    British women photographers 101T
  • 4.

    Jennie Boddington
    Australian film director and producer
    Jennie Boddington
    Overview: Jennifer "Jennie" Boddington (née Blackwood) (1922 – 15 November 2015) was an Australian film director and producer, who was first curator of photography at the National Gallery of Victoria in Melbourne ...
    Date of death: 15 November 2015
    Nationality: Australian
    Occupation: Curator
    Gender: Female
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    Australian women film producers 16T
    Women curators 134T
    2015 deaths 9,624T
  • 5.

    Anna Fárová
    Czech art historian and photographer
    Overview: Anna Fárová (1 June 1928 – 27 February 2010) was a Czech art historian who specialized and catalogued Czech and Czechoslovak photographers, including František Drtikol and Josef Sudek. She was one of the ...
    Date of birth: 1 June 1928
    Date of death: 27 February 2010
    Age: 81 (age at death)
    Nationality: Czech
    Occupation: Photographer
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    Women art historians 405T
    Czechoslovak expatriates in France 40T
    Recipients of Medal of Merit (Czech Republic) 200T
  • 6.

    Ellen Handy
    art critic and historian
    Overview: Ellen Joan Handy is an American art critic and historian of art, printmaking, and photography. She is Chair of the Photography Department of City College of New York. She is known for both her wide k ...
    Date of birth: 11 March 1961
    Age: 63
    Nationality: American
    Occupation: Critic
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    American women curators 208T
    American art curators 363T
    American women historians 946T
  • 7.

    Beaumont Newhall
    American art historian
    Beaumont Newhall
    Overview: Beaumont Newhall (June 22, 1908 – February 26, 1993) was an American curator, art historian, writer, photographer, and the second director of the George Eastman Museum. His book The History of Photography ...
    Date of birth: 22 June 1908
    Date of death: 26 February 1993
    Age: 84 (age at death)
    Nationality: American
    Occupation: Photographer
    Gender: Male
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    Historians from Massachusetts 230T
    American art curators 363T
    20th-century American historians 1,828T
  • 8.

    Nancy Newhall
    American photography critic
    Nancy Newhall
    Overview: Nancy Wynne Newhall (May 9, 1908 – July 7, 1974) was an American photography critic. She is best known for writing the text to accompany photographs by Ansel Adams and Edward Weston, but was also a widely ...
    Date of birth: 9 May 1908
    Date of death: 7 July 1974
    Age: 66 (age at death)
    Nationality: American
    Occupation: Critic
    Gender: Female
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    20th-century American non-fiction writers 3,627T
    Sierra Club people 26T
    20th-century American women writers 5,363T
  • 9.

    John Szarkowski
    American photographer, curator, historian, and critic (1925–2007)
    John Szarkowski
    Overview: Thaddeus John Szarkowski (December 18, 1925 – July 7, 2007) was an American photographer, curator, historian, and critic. From 1962 to 1991 Szarkowski was the director of photography at New York's Museum ...
    Date of birth: 18 December 1925
    Date of death: 7 July 2007
    Age: 81 (age at death)
    Nationality: American
    Occupation: Historian
    Gender: Male
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    University of Wisconsin–Madison College of Letters and Science alumni 651T
    American art curators 363T
    People associated with the Museum of Modern Art (New York City) 58T
  • 10.

    Colin Ford
    Photography curator, historian of photography, museum director
    Overview: Colin John Ford (born 1934) is a British photographic curator, historian of photography, and former museum director. He has written a number of books on the history of photography.
    Date of birth: 1934
    Age: 90
    Nationality: British
    Occupation: Curator
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    People associated with Amgueddfa Cymru – Museum Wales 15T
    People associated with the National Portrait Gallery 14T
    Directors of museums in the United Kingdom 77T
  • 11.

    Max Quanchi
    Australian scholar researching histories of the South Pacific nations and photography
    Overview: Max Quanchi is an Australian academic whose research specialisations have been the South Pacific nations and the role of photography in recording and transmitting its cultures and histories.
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  • 12.

    Clément Chéroux
    French photography historian and curator
    Clément Chéroux
    Overview: Clément Chéroux (born 1970) is a French photography historian and curator. He is Chief Curator of Photography at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City. He has also held senior curatorial positions ...
    Date of birth: 1970
    Age: 54
    Nationality: French
    Occupation: Curator
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    21st-century French historians 167T
    French art curators 61T
    People associated with the Museum of Modern Art (New York City) 60T
  • 13.

    Christina Riggs
    Historian of archaeology, photography and ancient Egyptian art
    Overview: Christina Riggs is a British-American historian, academic, and former museum curator. She specializes in the history of archaeology, photography, and ancient Egyptian art. Since 2019, she has been Professor ...
    Nationality: American
    Occupation: Curator
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  • 14.

    Peter Galassi
    American writer, curator, and art historian working in the field of photography
    Overview: Peter Galassi (born 1951) is an American writer, curator, and art historian working in the field of photography.
    Date of birth: 1951
    Age: 73
    Nationality: American
    Occupation: Curator
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  • 15.

    Kim Timby
    American-French photography historian and cultural anthropologist
    Overview: Kim Timby (born 1970 in California, United States) is a photography historian based in Paris who teaches at the École du Louvre and works as a curator for a private collection specialising in international ...
    Date of birth: 1970
    Age: 54
    Nationality: American
    Occupation: Anthropologist
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    Alex Nyerges
    American artist and arts administrator
    Overview: Alex Nyerges (born 1957) was named director of the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts in 2006, becoming the museum's eighth person to fill that post. He was also director and CEO at the Dayton Art Institute ...
    Date of birth: 1957
    Age: 67
    Nationality: American
    Occupation: Photographer
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  • 17.

    Margaret Harker
    British photographer and historian
    Margaret Harker
    Overview: Margaret Florence Harker (17 January 1920 – 16 February 2013), was a British photographer and historian of photography. She was the UK's first woman professor of photography, founded the country's first ...
    Date of birth: 17 January 1920
    Date of death: 16 February 2013
    Age: 93 (age at death)
    Nationality: British
    Occupation: Photographer
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  • 18.

    Nissan N. Perez
    Israeli art historian
    Nissan N. Perez
    Overview: Dr. Nissan Nisso Perez (born December 18, 1946) is a photography historian, researcher and curator. From 1977 until 2013, Perez was senior curator of the Noel and Harriette Levine Department of Photography ...
    Date of birth: 18 December 1946
    Age: 77
    Occupation: Curator
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    Israel Museum 11T
    Photography curators 54T
    1946 births 14,306T
  • 19.

    Naomi Rosenblum
    Historian of photography
    Naomi Rosenblum
    Overview: Naomi Rosenblum, PhD, (American, January 26, 1925-February 19, 2021) is the author "of two landmark histories of photography, A World History of Photography (1984) and A History of Women Photographers ...
    Date of birth: 1925
    Date of death: 19 March 2021
    Age: 95 (age at death)
    Nationality: American
    Occupation: Historian
    Gender: Female
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  • 20.

    Jack Cato
    Ausralian photographer
    Jack Cato
    Overview: John Cyril "Jack" Cato, F.R.P.S. (4 April 1889 – 14 August 1971) was a significant Australian portrait photographer in the Pictorialist style, operating in the first half of the twentieth century. He was ...
    Date of birth: 4 April 1889
    Date of death: 14 August 1971
    Age: 82 (age at death)
    Nationality: Australian
    Occupation: Photographer
    Gender: Male
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    Australian portrait photographers 11T
    Pictorialists 23T
    20th-century Australian male writers 334T
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