Ann Thomas
author
Ann Thomas is a Canadian photography curator and art historian born in Durban, South Africa. She emigrated to Canada as a teenager during the apartheid era. After obtaining her B.A. from Sir George Williams University (now Concordia University) and an M.F.A. from Concordia University in 1976, she began her career at the National Gallery of Canada in 1977. Over a career spanning more than 40 years, she served as Assistant Curator, Associate Curator, and Senior Curator of Photographs, also twice serving as interim chief curator. She is recognized for her extensive work in collecting, curating major exhibitions (such as those on Lisette Model and Don McCullin), and authoring numerous catalogues and books on photography. She retired from the National Gallery in 2021 and continues to work as an independent curator.[1,3,4]
- photography history
- curation
- scientific photography
Books
Works by Ann Thomas
- 1997 Beauty of Another Order: Photography in Science Edited by Ann Thomas with essays by Marta Braun, Mimi Cazort, Martin Kemp, John P. McElhone, and Larry J.
- 2007 Modernist Photographs from the National Gallery of Canada
- 2019 Isabelle Hayeur: American Dreams: Desert Shores Monograph on Hayeur.
Exhibitions
- 1997 Beauty of Another Order: Photography in Science
- 1990 Lisette Model
- 2013 Don McCullin: A Retrospective
- 2014 The Great War: the persuasive power of photography
- 2015 Luminous and True: The Photographs of Frederick H. Evans
- 2016 The intimate world of Josef Sudek
Awards
- 1990 George Wittenborn Memorial Book Award
- 1998 Kraszna-Krausz Photography Book Award
References
- Ann Thomas (curator) link
- People. Photography 2020 link
- Saxberg, Lynne. Ann Thomas meet the 74-year-old woman filling the National Gallery's leadership vacuum. ottawacitizen.com. 2018 link
- Robb, Peter. The National Gallery was looking for an assistant curator of photographs.... artsfile.ca. 2018 link