ACADEMIC QUALIFICATIONS

Master of Fine Arts - Typography and Graphic Design, Photographic Books, University of Wisconsin, 1983
Master of Arts - Photography - University of Wisconsin, 1982
Bachelor of Science - Liberal Arts - University of Wisconsin, 1980
Supplemental Academics
Professorial Assistant - Beginning and Intermediate Typography, 1981-1983
Beginning Papermaking - 1981-1983
Apprentice Master Printer - Chicago Albumen Works,

May-September 1979
Printer/Archivist - Berenice Abbott, Abbot Village, Maine, Independent Study Semester, Jan 1980 – May 1981

Independent Graduate Seminars
University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, 1978
History of Photography, Amy Conger, PhD University of New Mexico
Contemporary Ideas in Photography, Peter Bunnell, Princeton University
Eileen Cowin, Photographer, California State University
Barbara Kasten, Photographer, UCLA
19th Century Photographic Techniques, Joel Snyder, PhD, University of Chicago

PROFESSIONAL AND ACADEMIC SUMMARY

Free-lance Curator, Writer, Lecturer
I am currently revising and updating Lee Witkin’s classic book;

The Photograph Collector’s Guide and have written articles about photography which have been published in the History of
Photography, Oxford, England, Autumn 1998, Photographie, Germany, all catalogues issued by Galerie Stockeregg between 1987-1991, Pioneers of American Photography, Masterworks of the
Pfeifer Collection, 2001 and various other publications. I write a column entitled ‘What is it Worth?’on appraising photographs for Black and White Magazine for Collectors of Fine Photography. As Photographya free-lance Curator, I continue to organize exhibitions of photography, particularly the exhibition:
The Famous, The Infamous, The Anonymous: A History of Portraiture in Photography slated to start its tour in 2010.

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