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Maria Morris Hambourg

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American b. 1949, Houston, TX active 1975–present

Maria Morris Hambourg is an independent curator of photography and a prolific author specializing in the history of photography. She has served as a curator at several major institutions, including the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York, where she was involved with the Department of Photographs. Her work often focuses on significant 19th and 20th-century photographers such as Irving Penn, Edouard Baldus, and Eugène Atget. She has authored numerous monographs and exhibition catalogs that provide comprehensive scholarly overviews of photographic art.[1]

  • History of Photography
  • Curatorship
  • Portraiture

Books

  1. Douglas R. Nickel Carleton Watkins the Art of Perception 1840
    Carleton Watkins the Art of Perception
    Douglas R. Nickel
    €9.00
  2. Irving Penn Earthly bodies : Irving Penn's nudes 824
    Earthly bodies : Irving Penn's nudes
    Irving Penn
    €39.00
  3. Sandra S. Phillips, Maria Morris Hambourg Helen Levitt 2042
    Helen Levitt
    Sandra S. Phillips, Maria Morris Hambourg
    €17.00
  4. Hambourg, Maria Morris Irving Penn: Centennial 2740
    Irving Penn: Centennial
    Hambourg, Maria Morris
    €18.00
  5. Maria Morris Hambourg, Françoise Heilbrun, Philippe Néagu Nadar 1077
    Nadar
    Maria Morris Hambourg, Françoise Heilbrun, Philippe Néagu
    €45.00

Works by Maria Morris Hambourg

  • 1995 Nadar Schirmer/Mosel · book · German · ISBN 3888147271 Accompanying the exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and Musée d'Orsay.
  • 2026 Irving Penn: Centennial book Monograph on the work of Irving Penn.
  • The Work of Atget: Modern times book Co-authored with John Szarkowski.

References

  1. Babelio. Maria Morris Hambourg: books, biography. link