Biography
Diane Waggoner
Associate Curator, Department of Photographs
Diane Waggoner is associate curator in the department of photographs at the National Gallery of Art, Washington. She received a PhD in art history from Yale University. Prior to joining the National Gallery in 2004, she held positions at the Yale University Art Gallery and The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens. At the Huntington, she was the curator of The Beauty of Life: William Morris and the Art of Design (2003). Since joining the department of photographs, she has co-curated Photographic Discoveries: Recent Acquisitions (2006), The Streets of New York: American Photographs from the Collection, 1938-1958 (2006-07), The Art of the American Snapshot, 1888-1978: From the Collection of Robert E. Jackson (2007), and In the Darkroom: Photographic Processes before the Digital Age (2009) as well as co-authoring the catalogues for the latter two. The Art of the American Snapshot catalogue was the 2008 winner of the College Art Association's Alfred H. Barr, Jr., Award for distinguished museum publication. A specialist in the 19th century, she has also published on the photographs of Lewis Carroll.
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