National Gallery of Art

Photographic Discoveries: Recent Acquisitions
April 30–October 1, 2006

Exhibition Curators

Sarah Greenough is curator and head of the department of photographs at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. She has organized numerous exhibitions for the National Gallery, including Alfred Stieglitz, 1983, On the Art of Fixing a Shadow: 150 Years of Photography, 1989, Modern Art and America: Alfred Stieglitz and His New York Galleries, 2001, André Kertész, 2005, and Irving Penn: Platinum Prints, 2005 that have traveled to museums around the world. She is also the author of many publications, such as Walker Evans: Subways and Streets, 1991, Robert Frank: Moving Out, 1994, Harry Callahan, 1996, Alfred Stieglitz: The Key Set, 2002, and All the Mighty World: The Photographs of Roger Fenton, 1852 – 1860, 2004, with Malcolm Daniel and Gordon Baldwin. Her exhibitions and publications have won many awards, including the International Center of Photography Publications Award for On the Art of Fixing a Shadow: 150 Years of Photography and the George Wittenborn Memorial Book Award for Alfred Stieglitz: The Key Set.

Diane Waggoner is assistant curator in the department of photographs at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. She holds 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, most recently, 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), and the editor of the exhibition’s accompanying publication. A specialist in the 19th century, she has also published on the photographs of Lewis Carroll.

General Information

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