Britt Salvesen

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Britt Salvesen is a prominent curator and art historian specializing in photography. She currently serves as the Curator and Head of the Wallis Annenberg Photography Department and the Prints and Drawings Department at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA). Previously, she was the director and chief curator at the Center for Creative Photography (CCP) at the University of Arizona. Salvesen holds a Master of Arts from the Courtauld Institute of Art and a PhD from the University of Chicago. Her work involves curating major exhibitions on photography history, contemporary practices, and specific artists such as Harry Callahan and Lee Friedlander.[1,2,3]

Themes

  • photography curation
  • art history
  • prints and drawings

Works by Britt Salvesen

  • W. Eugene Smith: More Real than Reality 2011 · La Fabrica Editorial · book · English ISBN 9788492841080 Co-author/Curator of the monograph.

References

  1. Britt Salvesen. Los Angeles County Museum of Art link
  2. Britt Salvesen. Steidl Verlag link
  3. Britt Salvesen. WGBH.org link