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Let’s travel to Houston!!  San Francisco Camerawork invites you on a virtual trip to Houston where photography curator Malcolm Daniel will give a special tour of the photography collection housed in the brand new Nancy and Rich Kinder Building at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. Malcolm Daniel will be joined in conversation by SFMOMA photography curator Corey Keller followed by q&a with guests.  Bring your coffee or a mimosa for this weekend treat!  Space is limited.

The MFA Houston is the first stop on SF Camerawork’s Travel Program, a series of virtual trips to visit with colleagues across the country - including institutional and private collections. Stay tuned for more destinations.

ABOUT MALCOLM DANIEL

Malcolm Daniel is the Gus and Lyndall Wortham Curator of Photography at The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, a position he assumed in December 2013 after 23 years on the curatorial staff of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, including 9 years as head of that museum’s Department of Photographs.  He received his B.A. in Art History and Studio Art from Trinity College, Hartford, and his Masters and Doctorate in art history from Princeton University. He is the author of numerous exhibition catalogues and scholarly articles and has served as adjunct professor at Columbia University and the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University.   

A specialist in nineteenth-century French and British photography, he has curated or co-curated many exhibitions focused on key figures in the history of photography including the French architectural and landscape photographer Edouard Baldus and his British contemporary Roger Fenton; the great portraitist of Victorian England, Julia Margaret Cameron; the Impressionist painter Edgar Degas; and the early-20th-century masters of the medium, Alfred Stieglitz, Edward Steichen, and Paul Strand. In addition, he has organized or co-organized thematic exhibitions focused on French daguerreotypes, early British photography, Napoleon III and Paris, photographic nudes, Pictorialist photography, and archaeological photographs of Egypt.  

Although Daniel’s scholarship has concentrated on the first 75 years of the medium, at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Daniel oversees acquisitions and exhibitions spanning the full history of photography from its birth to the present day. His recent exhibitions and installations at the MFAH have included monographic presentations of Eugène Atget, Lewis Baltz, Dawoud Bey, David Levinthal, Helen Levitt, Vera Lutter, Sally Mann, and Fazal Sheikh, as well as an ongoing series, A History of Photography, selected from the museum’s permanent collection. Most recently, he has overseen the installation of the department’s galleries in the Museum’s new Nancy and Rich Kinder Building and photography’s presence in the building’s interdisciplinary galleries. 

ABOUT COREY KELLER

Corey Keller is curator of photography and acting head of the Photography Department at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA), where she has been a member of the curatorial team since 2003. During her tenure, she has organized numerous exhibitions, including, most recently, Close to Home: Creativity in Crisis, which highlights seven Bay Area artists’ responses to the crises of 2020. Other recent major projects include Signs and Wonders: The Photographs of John Beasley Greene (2019), the first survey exhibition of this nineteenth-century photographer-archaeologist, and the major retrospective Dawoud Bey: An American Project (2020, co-organized with the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York). Recent writing projects include an essay on Imogen Cunningham’s portrait of painter David Park (SFMOMA, 2020); entries on early women photographers in California (Une histoire des femmes photographes mondiale, 2020); and a consideration of the motion studies of Eadweard Muybridge, Etienne-Jules Marey, and Clare Strand and the representation of the laboring body (Carnegie Museum of Art, 2020).

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