Sandra S. Phillips
Sandra S. "Sandy" Phillips is an American photography curator.[1] She was curator of photography at San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) from 1987, senior curator there from 1999 to 2016, then its curator emeritus.[2][3] She curated many photography exhibitions at SFMOMA, including some that toured internationally, and edited a number of books to accompany them.[2]
She received the 2013 Vision Award from the Center for Photography at Woodstock.
Life and work
Phillips' father was Joseph Sammataro, "an immigrant from Sicily who became a New York architect" and her mother was Nelva Weber, "a farmer's daughter from Illinois who became a well-known landscape architect and author."[4] She grew up in New York's Upper East Side.[4] She received a B.A. in art and art history from Bard College in Upstate New York in 1967,[4][5] an M.A. from Bryn Mawr College in Pennsylvania in 1969, and a Ph.D. in art history in 1985 from City University of New York, where she specialised in the history of photography and American and European art from 1849 to 1940.[5][4] Her Ph.D dissertation was on André Kertész.
She briefly taught history of photography at Mills College in Oakland, CA, and was a curator at the Vassar Art Gallery in Poughkeepsie, NY.[4]
Phillips' earliest major project was the 1985 exhibition André Kertész: Of Paris and New York, organised by the Art Institute of Chicago and shown at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City, in collaboration with the curators of those museums.[2] She is interested in vernacular photography.[2] Her SFMOMA exhibition Police Pictures: The Photograph as Evidence, "examined mug shots and crime scenes and was the first museum show of its kind."[4] Exposed: Voyeurism, Surveillance, and the Camera Since 1870, co-curated with Simon Baker at Tate Modern, examined the voyeuristic aspect of photography;[4][1] it premiered at Tate Modern in London and toured to SFMOMA and to the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis.[4]
Phillips' first husband was Matt Phillips and her second is Stephen Vincent.[4] She has a son, Joshua E.S. Phillips.[4]
Publications
- André Kertész: of Paris and New York. Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago; London: Thames & Hudson, 1985. By Phillips, David Travis, and Weston J Naef. ISBN 978-0865590618.
- Wright Morris: Origin of a Species. San Francisco: San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 1992. By Phillips and John Szarkowski. ISBN 9780918471246.
- Crossing the Frontier: Photographs of the Developing West, 1849 to the Present. San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 1996. By Phillips, Richard Rodriguez, Aaron Betsky, and Eldridge M. Moores. ISBN 9780811814201. Exhibition catalogue. "“documentary” pictures of the American West."[2]
- Police Pictures: the Photograph as Evidence. San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 1998. By Phillips, Carol Squiers, and Mark Haworth-Booth. ISBN 978-0811819848. Exhibition catalogue.
- Shomei Tomatsu: Skin of the Nation. New Haven, CT: Yale University, 2004. By Phillips, Leo Rubinfien, and John W. Dower. ISBN 978-0300106046. With a preface by Daidō Moriyama.
- Martin Parr. Photographs by Martin Parr. Edited and with an introduction by Phillips. Phaidon 55. London: Phaidon, 2007. ISBN 978-0-7148-4528-9. Paris: Phaidon, 2007. ISBN 0714899925. French-language edition. London: Phaidon, 2013.
- Exposed: Voyeurism, Surveillance, and the Camera Since 1870. London: Tate, 2010. Edited by Phillips. ISBN 978-1854379252. New Haven, CT: Yale University, 2010. ISBN 978-0300163438. With essays by Simon Baker and others. Exhibition catalogue.
- Rineke Dijkstra: A Retrospective. New York City: Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, 2012. By Rineke Dijkstra, Phillips and Jennifer Blessing. ISBN 978-0892074242.
Award
- 2013: Vision Award from the Center for Photography at Woodstock[6][7]
References
- 1 2 Louise Turner, Cherie (18 November 2010). "Photography that Looks at Us: An Interview with Curator Sandra S. Phillips about Exposed at SFMOMA". New York: The Huffington Post. Retrieved 29 May 2017.
- 1 2 3 4 5 Desmarais, Charles (13 April 2016). "SFMOMA photography curator Sandra Phillips stepping down". SFGate. San Francisco Chronicle. Retrieved 29 May 2017.
- ↑ Gefter, Philip (25 November 2004). "Newly Released". New York: The New York Times. Retrieved 29 May 2017.
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Whiting, Sam (14 November 2010). "SFMOMA curator brings focus and vision". SFGate. San Francisco Chronicle. Retrieved 29 May 2017.
- 1 2 "Sandra S. Phillips (2014)". CDS/Honickman First Book Prize in Photography. Retrieved 29 May 2017.
- ↑ "CPW Awards Honorees". Center for Photography at Woodstock. Retrieved 29 May 2017.
- ↑ Smart, Paul (17 October 2013). "Center for Photography at Woodstock auction & gala". Hudson Vallery One. Retrieved 29 May 2017.