Philip Brookman is Chief Curator and Head of Research at the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. He is currently working on a retrospective exhibition and book about British/American photographer Eadweard Muybridge for the Corcoran. He has organized and collaborated on major exhibitions for...
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Philip Brookman is Chief Curator and Head of Research at the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. He is currently working on a retrospective exhibition and book about British/American photographer Eadweard Muybridge for the Corcoran. He has organized and collaborated on major exhibitions for other museums including the Tate Modern, London, the National Gallery of Art, Washington, and The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. He was previously Senior Curator of Photography and Media Arts at the Corcoran, and has held curatorial positions at Washington Project for the Arts, El Centro Cultural de la Raza, San Diego, and the University of California, Santa Cruz. He is also a photographer, filmmaker, writer, and editor. He graduated with degrees 20th Century Art History and Fine Arts from the University of California, Santa Cruz.Brookman recently completed work on several exhibitions and books, including Helios: Eadweard Muybridge in a Time of Change, Maya Lin: Systematic Landscapes, Leo Rubinfien: Wounded Cities, Modernism: Designing a New World, Sally Mann: What Remains, Common Ground: Discovering Community in 150 Years of Art, and Robert Frank: London/Wales for the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Robert Frank: Storylines for the Tate Modern and Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona. He was also co-curator of the exhibitions and co-editor of the books Robert Frank: Moving Out for the National Gallery of Art, Washington and Robert Frank: New York to Nova Scotia for the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. Some of Brookman's other recent projects for the Corcoran include the exhibitions, books, and web sites Emmet Gowin: Changing the Earth, Media/Metaphor: The 46th Biennial Exhibition, and Half Past Autumn: The Art of Gordon Parks. Brookman has since 1994 produced a number of other traveling exhibitions and books for the Corcoran, including Raised by Wolves: Photographs and Documents by Jim Goldberg, Hospice: A Photographic Inquiry, The Way Home: Ending Homelessness in America, and Arnold Newman: Breaking Ground
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