Katherine Bussard
Profile
Katherine A. Bussard has served as the Peter C. Bunnell Curator of Photography since 2013. She holds a Ph.D. from the City University of New York. Her books include So the Story Goes: Photographs by Tina Barney, Philip-Lorca diCorcia, Nan Goldin, Sally Mann, and Larry Sultan (2006); Color Rush: American Color Photography from Stieglitz to Sherman (2013); and Unfamiliar Streets: The Photographs of Richard Avedon, Charles Moore, Martha Rosler, and Philip-Lorca diCorcia (2014). Bussard is the coauthor of an award-winning publication exploring the intersection of photography, architecture, and urban studies, The City Lost and Found: Capturing New York, Chicago, and Los Angeles, 1960–1980. Her most recent project, Life Magazine and the Power of Photography, won the prestigious Alfred H. Alfred H. Barr Jr. Award for museum scholarship from College Art Association. She serves as Co-Chair of the Photography Network, a global organization that fosters discussion, research, and new approaches within the field of photography and its relation to art, culture, society, and history.
Education
Ph.D., City University of New York, 2009
Selected Publications
Selected Publications
The City Lost and Found: Capturing New York, Chicago, and Los Angeles, 1960–1980, coedited with Alison Fisher and Greg Foster-Rice (Princeton University Art Museum, 2014).
Unfamiliar Streets: Photographs by Richard Avedon, Charles Moore, Martha Rosler, and Philip-Lorca diCorcia (Yale University Press, 2014).
Color Rush: American Color Photography from Stieglitz to Sherman, coauthored with Lisa Hostetler (Aperture, 2013).
“Questionnaire / Katherine Bussard,” in Words Without Pictures, ed. Alex Klein (Museum Associates/Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 2009; 2nd ed., Aperture, 2010).
“Canon and Context: Notes on American Street Photography,” in Street Art, Street Life: From the 1950s to Now, ed. Lydia Yee and Whitney Rugg (Aperture, in collaboration with the Bronx Museum of the Arts, 2008).
So the Story Goes: Photographs by Tina Barney, Philip-Lorca diCorcia, Nan Goldin, Sally Mann, and Larry Sultan (The Art Institute of Chicago and Yale University Press, 2006).