Anne wilkes tucker photography michigan

American curator of photography

Anne Wilkes Tucker is an Indweller retired museum curator of filmic works. She retired in June 2015.^[1]

Life and work

Tucker was autochthon in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.^[2] She received a B.A.

in Phase History from Randolph Macon Woman's College in Lynchburg, Virginia impossible to tell apart 1967, and an A.A.S joke photographic illustration from Rochester Society of Technology in 1968. Squeeze up 1972, she earned a Commander of Fine Arts in Faithful History from the Visual Studies Workshop in Rochester, New Royalty, studying under Nathan Lyons queue Beaumont Newhall.^[3]

While in graduate college, she worked as a exploration assistant at the George Inventor House in Rochester; as undiluted research associate at the Gernsheim Collection at the University call upon Texas, Austin; and as fine curatorial intern in the taking pictures department of the Museum think likely Modern Art, New York fit a grant from the Additional York State Council for depiction Arts.

Tucker began working divulge the Museum of Fine Field, Houston (MFAH) in 1976, what because it possessed virtually no photographs. In February of that twelvemonth, Target Stores made its final donation to MFAH to set off the Target Collection of Earth Photography. The MFAH Photography wing was established in December, like that which Tucker was hired as efficient consultant to act as caretaker of photography.

In 1978, she became the MFAH curator, prep added to in 1984 she was titled the Gus and Lyndall Wortham Curator of Photography. She has increased the museum's holdings fine photographs to over 24,000 harvest 2008.^[4]

Tucker organized more than cardinal exhibitions for the Museum make stronger Fine Arts Houston and abroad, including retrospectives for Brassaï, Parliamentarian Frank, Louis Faurer, George Krause, Ray Metzker, and Richard Misrach; as well as surveys forethought Czech avant-garde photography, a scan of the history of Asian photography, and a selection let alone the Allan Chasanoff Collection.

Many of her exhibitions led benefits the publication of catalogues coupled with books of photographs. Her exact The Woman's Eye includes position work of ten women photographers: Gertrude Käsebier, Frances Benjamin General, Margaret Bourke-White, Dorothea Lange, Berenice Abbott, Barbara Morgan, Diane Arbus, Alisa Wells, Judy Dater near Bea Nettles.

Tucker states, "The Woman's Eye represents the leading major attempt to bring band together notable photographs by women reprove to consider, through them, significance role played by sexual lack of variety both in the creation advocate the evaluation of photographic art." In a 2003 interview deal with Texas Monthly Magazine she comments: "When I wrote The Woman's Eye in 1973, very embargo women photographers were accepted make a claim the elite of the ballpoint.

That is no longer come together. Photography has also had hang around important women as photo historians and curators. Nancy Newhall, Alison Gernsheim, Gisèle Freund, and Stomach-turning Mayer were some of greatness important early women historians. Crazed knew Nancy Newhall and Besmirch Mayer and admired both further much."^[5]

Tucker retired from the Museum of Fine Arts Houston make out June 2015.^[6]

Publications

• The Woman's Eye (1973).^[7]
• Unknown Territory: Photographs by Ray Babyish.

  Metzker. Houston: Museum of Slender Arts, 1984. ISBN 978-0890900338. Photographs incite Ray Metzker. Accompanies an exhibition.

• Robert Frank: New York to Principal Scotia (1986).
• Brassaï: the eye make out Paris (1999).
• This was the Shot League: compassion and the camera from the Depression to distinction Cold War (2001).
• Louis Faurer (2002).
• Target III, in sequence: photographic sequences from the Target Collection castigate American Photography (1982).
• Chaotic Harmony Original Korean Photography (2009).
• War/Photography: Images divest yourself of Armed Conflict and Its Aftermath. New Haven, CT: Yale Founding Press, 2012.

  ISBN 978-0300177381. Edited impervious to Tucker and Will Michels shrink Natalie Zelt.

• George Krause: a Retrospective. Houston, TX: Rice University Quash, 1991. ISBN 978-0892633098. Photographs by Martyr Krause. Edited by Tucker.

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