Clark Worswick is an American photographic historian, collector, and curator. Born in Berkeley, California, he attended Visva Bharati University in West Bengal, India, before traveling extensively between India and Europe to collect and photograph 19th-century imagery. He has served as the founding curator of photography at the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem, Massachusetts, where he curated significant collections of non-Western photographs. Worswick is recognized for his scholarly work on Indian, Chinese, and Japanese classical photography, often identifying non-European artists within these historical contexts. His publications have received critical acclaim from major outlets including The New York Times and Time Magazine.[1,2,3]
JAPAN. PHOTOGRAPHS 1854-19051979 · Alfred A. Knopft, Inc. · book · EnglishISBN 039450836XEdited and with a historical text by Clark Worswick; introduction by Jan Morris.
The Last Empire: Photography in British India, 1865-19111976 · bookIntroduction by Earl Mountbatten.
Imperial China: Photographs, 1850-1912book
ArtMachine: A Reinvention of Photography, 1959-19992016 · book
Exhibitions
2018The Great Within: Photographs of India and the British Raj in the 19th CenturySotheby's, New Yorkgroup
