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'''Russell Lord''' (born 1977) is an American writer and curator working in the field of photography. He is the Freeman Family Curator of Photographs, Prints, and Drawings at the [[New Orleans Museum of Art]], a position he assumed in October 2011.<ref name="Intro"></ref>
==Life and Work==
Lord was born and raised in Massachusetts and Virginia. He received a B.A. in Art History and French from [[James Madison University]] in 2000, and an M.Phil. in Art History from The Graduate Center at the [[City University of New York]] in 2009. His graduate work focused on the origins of photography and its relationship to printmaking.
Prior to his graduate work, Lord worked at the [[Yale University]] Art Gallery in the Department of Prints, Drawings, and Photographs from 2000-2003.<ref></ref> During that time he coordinated the production of a major monograph on photographer [[Emmet Gowin]]'s aerial work, [https://ift.tt/3cG1klw Changing the Earth].
While enrolled as a graduate student, Lord was awarded a Jane and Morgan Whitney Fellowship to continue research on his doctoral dissertation and participate in the activities of the [[Metropolitan Museum of Art]]'s Department of Photographs.<ref name="Fellowship"></ref> Lord organized an exhibition for the Johnson Galleries at [[Metropolitan Museum of Art|the Met]] and assisted Malcolm Daniel on the exhibition ''Stieglitz, Steichen, Strand''.<ref></ref>
Since arriving at the [[New Orleans Museum of Art]], Lord has organized dozens of exhibitions on historic and contemporary photographs, prints, and drawings, working with artists such as [[Willie Birch]], [[Edward Burtynsky]], [[Lee Friedlander]], Dawn Dedeaux, [[Vera Lutter]], and more. In conjunction with these exhibitions, Lord organized and participated in a variety of programs, including interviewing [[Pulitzer Prize]] winning writer [[Tony Kushner]] about his work on the [[Steven Spielberg]] film [[Lincoln (film)|''Lincoln'']].<ref></ref>
In 2013, Lord organized ''Gordon Parks: The Making of an Argument'', an exhibition about the process behind Gordon Parks' first photographic essay for [[LIFE magazine]].<ref name="New Yorker"></ref> The exhibition originated at NOMA then traveled to five other venues: The Faulconer Gallery at [[Grinnell College]],<ref></ref> The [[Fralin Museum of Art]] at the [[University of Virginia]],<ref></ref> The [[Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center]] at [[Vassar College]],<ref></ref> and the [[Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive]] at the [[University of California, Berkeley]].<ref name="Lens"></ref>
In 2019, Lord was a visiting instructor at the [[University of New Orleans]], teaching a class on the history of photography and curatorial practice.
Lord serves on the advisory board of [https://ift.tt/16INjuz The Gordon Parks Foundation], and is an at-large board member of the [https://ift.tt/34USbTq New Orleans Photo Alliance]. He lives in New Orleans with his wife and two children.
==Selected Curated Exhibitions==
* 2011: ''Making a Mark: The Dorothy and Herbert Vogel Collection,'' New Orleans Museum of Art<ref></ref>
* 2012: ''What is a Photograph? New Orleans Museum of Art;<ref></ref> Photography, Sequence, and Time'', New Orleans Museum of Art
* 2013: ''Shadow and Light'', New Orleans Museum of Art;<ref></ref> ''The Story in Pictures: Social Documents from the Permanent Collection'', New Orleans Museum of Art;<ref></ref> ''Gordon Parks: The Making of an Argument'', New Orleans Museum of Art;<ref name="New Yorker" />''Edward Burtynsky: Water'', Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans;<ref></ref> ''Photography at NOMA'', New Orleans Museum of Art<ref></ref>
* 2014: ''Photo-Unrealism'', New Orleans Museum of Art; ''Emmet Gowin: Concerning America and Alfred Stieglitz, and Myself'', New Orleans Museum of Art; ''Josephine Sacabo: Salutations'', New Orleans Museum of Art
* 2015: ''Ten Years Gone'', New Orleans Museum of Art; ''Vera Lutter: Inverted Worlds'' organized in association with the Houston Museum of Fine Arts, at the New Orleans Museum of Art; ''Paper Negatives'', New Orleans Museum of Art; ''Negative Image'', New Orleans Museum of Art
* 2016: ''Kenneth Josephson: Photography Is'', New Orleans Museum of Art; ''Something in the Way: A Brief History of Photography and Obstruction'', New Orleans Museum of Art
* 2017: ''Jim Steg: New Work'', New Orleans Museum of Art
* 2018: ''Lee Friedlander in Louisiana'', New Orleans Museum of Art
* 2019: ''Past Present Future: Building Photography at NOMA'', New Orleans Museum of Art; ''You Are Here: A Brief History of Photography and Place'', New Orleans Museum of Art<ref></ref>
==List of Publications==
* "Process and Progress: George Seeley and the Pictorial Recipe" Yale University Art Gallery Bulletin, 2003
* "The Ghosting of Photography" Visual Resources, June, 2010
* "Faithful Delineations: Rev. George Wilson Bridges and his Photographs of Palestine" in Breaking New Ground: New Perspectives on Caribbean History, Culture, Literature, and Education, Kingston: Ian Randle, 2011
* Gordon Parks: The Making of an Argument, Gottingen, Germany: Steidl, the New Orleans Museum of Art, and The Gordon Parks Foundation, 2013
* Edward Burtynsky: Water, Gottingen: The New Orleans Museum of Art and Steidl, 2013
* "The Treachery of Images: Photo-Unrealism" in Photorealism: Beginnings to Today, New York: Scala Arts and Heritage Publishers, 2014
* "Obscure Histories: The Salted Paper Print in the United States" in Natural Magic: The Salt Print in North America, Seattle: University of Washington Press and the Santa Barbara Museum of Art, 2015
* "The Interested Landscape" in East of the Mississippi: Nineteenth-Century American Landscape Photography, New Haven: Yale University Press in association with the National Gallery of Art and the New Orleans Museum of Art, 2017
* Looking Again: Photography at the New Orleans Museum of Art, New York: Aperture and the New Orleans Museum of Art, 2018
==References==
==Life and Work==
Lord was born and raised in Massachusetts and Virginia. He received a B.A. in Art History and French from [[James Madison University]] in 2000, and an M.Phil. in Art History from The Graduate Center at the [[City University of New York]] in 2009. His graduate work focused on the origins of photography and its relationship to printmaking.
Prior to his graduate work, Lord worked at the [[Yale University]] Art Gallery in the Department of Prints, Drawings, and Photographs from 2000-2003.<ref></ref> During that time he coordinated the production of a major monograph on photographer [[Emmet Gowin]]'s aerial work, [https://ift.tt/3cG1klw Changing the Earth].
While enrolled as a graduate student, Lord was awarded a Jane and Morgan Whitney Fellowship to continue research on his doctoral dissertation and participate in the activities of the [[Metropolitan Museum of Art]]'s Department of Photographs.<ref name="Fellowship"></ref> Lord organized an exhibition for the Johnson Galleries at [[Metropolitan Museum of Art|the Met]] and assisted Malcolm Daniel on the exhibition ''Stieglitz, Steichen, Strand''.<ref></ref>
Since arriving at the [[New Orleans Museum of Art]], Lord has organized dozens of exhibitions on historic and contemporary photographs, prints, and drawings, working with artists such as [[Willie Birch]], [[Edward Burtynsky]], [[Lee Friedlander]], Dawn Dedeaux, [[Vera Lutter]], and more. In conjunction with these exhibitions, Lord organized and participated in a variety of programs, including interviewing [[Pulitzer Prize]] winning writer [[Tony Kushner]] about his work on the [[Steven Spielberg]] film [[Lincoln (film)|''Lincoln'']].<ref></ref>
In 2013, Lord organized ''Gordon Parks: The Making of an Argument'', an exhibition about the process behind Gordon Parks' first photographic essay for [[LIFE magazine]].<ref name="New Yorker"></ref> The exhibition originated at NOMA then traveled to five other venues: The Faulconer Gallery at [[Grinnell College]],<ref></ref> The [[Fralin Museum of Art]] at the [[University of Virginia]],<ref></ref> The [[Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center]] at [[Vassar College]],<ref></ref> and the [[Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive]] at the [[University of California, Berkeley]].<ref name="Lens"></ref>
In 2019, Lord was a visiting instructor at the [[University of New Orleans]], teaching a class on the history of photography and curatorial practice.
Lord serves on the advisory board of [https://ift.tt/16INjuz The Gordon Parks Foundation], and is an at-large board member of the [https://ift.tt/34USbTq New Orleans Photo Alliance]. He lives in New Orleans with his wife and two children.
==Selected Curated Exhibitions==
* 2011: ''Making a Mark: The Dorothy and Herbert Vogel Collection,'' New Orleans Museum of Art<ref></ref>
* 2012: ''What is a Photograph? New Orleans Museum of Art;<ref></ref> Photography, Sequence, and Time'', New Orleans Museum of Art
* 2013: ''Shadow and Light'', New Orleans Museum of Art;<ref></ref> ''The Story in Pictures: Social Documents from the Permanent Collection'', New Orleans Museum of Art;<ref></ref> ''Gordon Parks: The Making of an Argument'', New Orleans Museum of Art;<ref name="New Yorker" />''Edward Burtynsky: Water'', Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans;<ref></ref> ''Photography at NOMA'', New Orleans Museum of Art<ref></ref>
* 2014: ''Photo-Unrealism'', New Orleans Museum of Art; ''Emmet Gowin: Concerning America and Alfred Stieglitz, and Myself'', New Orleans Museum of Art; ''Josephine Sacabo: Salutations'', New Orleans Museum of Art
* 2015: ''Ten Years Gone'', New Orleans Museum of Art; ''Vera Lutter: Inverted Worlds'' organized in association with the Houston Museum of Fine Arts, at the New Orleans Museum of Art; ''Paper Negatives'', New Orleans Museum of Art; ''Negative Image'', New Orleans Museum of Art
* 2016: ''Kenneth Josephson: Photography Is'', New Orleans Museum of Art; ''Something in the Way: A Brief History of Photography and Obstruction'', New Orleans Museum of Art
* 2017: ''Jim Steg: New Work'', New Orleans Museum of Art
* 2018: ''Lee Friedlander in Louisiana'', New Orleans Museum of Art
* 2019: ''Past Present Future: Building Photography at NOMA'', New Orleans Museum of Art; ''You Are Here: A Brief History of Photography and Place'', New Orleans Museum of Art<ref></ref>
==List of Publications==
* "Process and Progress: George Seeley and the Pictorial Recipe" Yale University Art Gallery Bulletin, 2003
* "The Ghosting of Photography" Visual Resources, June, 2010
* "Faithful Delineations: Rev. George Wilson Bridges and his Photographs of Palestine" in Breaking New Ground: New Perspectives on Caribbean History, Culture, Literature, and Education, Kingston: Ian Randle, 2011
* Gordon Parks: The Making of an Argument, Gottingen, Germany: Steidl, the New Orleans Museum of Art, and The Gordon Parks Foundation, 2013
* Edward Burtynsky: Water, Gottingen: The New Orleans Museum of Art and Steidl, 2013
* "The Treachery of Images: Photo-Unrealism" in Photorealism: Beginnings to Today, New York: Scala Arts and Heritage Publishers, 2014
* "Obscure Histories: The Salted Paper Print in the United States" in Natural Magic: The Salt Print in North America, Seattle: University of Washington Press and the Santa Barbara Museum of Art, 2015
* "The Interested Landscape" in East of the Mississippi: Nineteenth-Century American Landscape Photography, New Haven: Yale University Press in association with the National Gallery of Art and the New Orleans Museum of Art, 2017
* Looking Again: Photography at the New Orleans Museum of Art, New York: Aperture and the New Orleans Museum of Art, 2018
==References==
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