Brian Wallis, on Vernacular Photography, the growing study of family albums and photos as a tool of social history. Mr. Wallis is highly respected as a curator in the world of photography. He was recently named Executive Director of the Center for Photography at Woodstock.
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Brian Wallis was Deputy Director and Chief Curator at the International Center of Photography (ICP) in New York from 2000 to 2015. Under his leadership, ICP presented more than 150 exhibitions and installations, including Only Skin Deep: Visions of the American Self; African American Vernacular Photography; Strangers: The First ICP Triennial of Photography and Video; and Weegee: Murder Is My Business. Before joining ICP, Wallis worked at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, the Museum of Modern Art, and the New Museum of Contemporary Art. More recently, Wallis worked as curator for The Walther Collection, a museum of photography with facilities in New York and Neu Ulm, Germany, where he oversaw numerous exhibitions, including Imagining Everyday Life: Encounters with Vernacular Photography, awarded the Paris Photo-Aperture Foundation prize for Photography Catalogue of the Year in 2020.