Colin Westerbeck

Colin Westerbeck is a curator, writer, and teacher of the history of photography.

Before moving to Los Angeles, where he has taught at UCLA and USC, he was curator of photography at the Art Institute of Chicago. He is a regular contributor to publications such as the Los Angeles Times and West Magazine.[1][2][3]

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Awards

Westerbeck has received the Reva and David Logan Prize for New Writing on Photography, and an Art Critic's Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts. He has also received a grant, along with Joel Meyerowitz, from the National Endowment for the Humanities for research on the history of street photography. In 2000, Westerbeck won the J. Dudley Johnston Award for the writing of photographic criticism and history, from the Royal Photographic Society of Great Britain.[4]

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  1. ^ Los Angeles Times (2006-01-12). "Los Angeles Times to Launch 'West' Magazine Feb. 5". Los Angeles Times. http://www.latimes.com/services/newspaper/mediacenter/releases/la-mediacenter-2006-0112,0,5263531.story?coll=la-mediacenter-releases. Retrieved September 29, 2007. 
  2. ^ Hachette Book Group (2007). "Colin Westerbeck biography". Hachette Book Group USA. http://www.hachettebookgroupusa.com/authors/43/637/index.html. Retrieved September 29, 2007. 
  3. ^ Westerbeck, Colin (1997). "Chicago Art Institute pays $185,000 for Douglass portrait.(portrait of Frederick Douglass)". Ebony magazine. http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1G1-19092165.html. Retrieved September 29, 2007. 
  4. ^ "J Dudley Johnston Award". The Royal Photographic Society. http://www.rps.org/annual-awards/J-Dudley-Johnston-Award. Retrieved 2010-12-12. 
  5. ^ William Meyers (2007). "Arts & Letters - Winogrand's Scenes From the Street:Photography". The New York Sun. http://www.nysun.com/article/63043. Retrieved September 29, 2007. 

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