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]
Target II: 5 American Photographers1981 · The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston · book · EnglishISBN 0890900043Covers De Meyer, White, Stieglitz, Strand, and Weston.
The Woman's Eye1973 · bookIncludes work of ten women photographers.
Unknown Territory: Photographs by Ray K. Metzker1984 · Museum of Fine Arts, Houston · bookISBN 978-0890900338Accompanies an exhibition.
Robert Frank: New York to Nova Scotia1986 · book
Brassaï: the eye of Paris1999 · book
This was the Photo League: compassion and the camera from the Depression to the Cold War2001 · book
Louis Faurer2002 · book
Target III, in sequence: photographic sequences from the Target Collection of American Photography1982 · book
Chaotic Harmony Contemporary Korean Photography2009 · book
War/Photography: Images of Armed Conflict and Its Aftermath2012 · Yale University Press · bookISBN 978-0300177381Edited by Tucker and Will Michels with Natalie Zelt.
George Krause: a Retrospective1991 · Rice University Press · bookISBN 978-0892633098Edited by Tucker.
Exhibitions
1976Target Collection of American PhotographyMuseum of Fine Arts, Houston, Houstongroup
Awards
1983Guggenheim FellowshipJohn Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation
2001America's Best CuratorTime Magazine
2005International AwardPhotographic Society of Japan
2006Focus Award for Lifetime AchievementGriffin Museum of Photography
2013Special jury recognition, PhotoBook of the YearParis Photo–Aperture Foundation PhotoBook Awards
2013Best Photography BookKraszna-Krausz Awards
2019Award for Curatorship and Honorary FellowshipRoyal Photographic Society
