Anne Wilkes Tucker
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Anne Wilkes Tucker is an American curator of photographic works who served as the Gus and Lyndall Wortham Curator of Photography at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (MFAH) from 1978 until her retirement in June 2015. She founded the MFAH Department of Photography in 1976 and significantly expanded its holdings to over 24,000 photographs by 2008. Tucker has organized more than forty exhibitions, including retrospectives for notable photographers such as Brassaï, Robert Frank, and Louis Faurer. Her scholarly work includes publications on the history of Japanese photography, war photography, and a significant study on women photographers titled 'The Woman's Eye'. She is recognized as one of the foremost curators of photography in the United States.[4,5,6]
- Photography History
- Curatorship
- Women Photographers
Books
Works by Anne Wilkes Tucker
- 1981 Target II: 5 American Photographers Covers De Meyer, White, Stieglitz, Strand, and Weston.
- 1973 The Woman's Eye Includes work of ten women photographers.
- 1984 Unknown Territory: Photographs by Ray K. Metzker Accompanies an exhibition.
- 1986 Robert Frank: New York to Nova Scotia
- 1999 Brassaï: the eye of Paris
- 2001 This was the Photo League: compassion and the camera from the Depression to the Cold War
- 2002 Louis Faurer
- 1982 Target III, in sequence: photographic sequences from the Target Collection of American Photography
- 2009 Chaotic Harmony Contemporary Korean Photography
- 2012 War/Photography: Images of Armed Conflict and Its Aftermath Edited by Tucker and Will Michels with Natalie Zelt.
- 1991 George Krause: a Retrospective Edited by Tucker.
Exhibitions
- 1976 Target Collection of American Photography
Awards
- 1983 Guggenheim Fellowship
- 2001 America's Best Curator
- 2005 International Award
- 2006 Focus Award for Lifetime Achievement
- 2013 Special jury recognition, PhotoBook of the Year
- 2013 Best Photography Book
- 2019 Award for Curatorship and Honorary Fellowship