Exhibitions

Philip Brookman
Director of Curatorial Affairs
Corcoran Gallery of Art

Mr. Brookman’s area of interest is the history of 20th-century photography, specifically documentary photography and film.

His recent exhibitions include Sally Mann: What Remains; Robert Frank: London/Wales; Emmet Gowin: Changing the Earth; Media/Metaphor: The 46th Biennial Exhibition; Half Past Autumn: The Art of Gordon Parks; Raised by Wolves: Photographs and Documents by Jim Goldberg; Hospice: A Photographic Inquiry; The Way Home: Ending Homelessness in America; Arnold Newman: Breaking Ground; and Arthur Tress: Fantastic Voyage, Photographs 1956-2000.

A writer, editor, filmmaker and photographer, he has recently written essays on artists Henri Cartier-Bresson and William Christenberry for The Washington Post Magazine, a script for a feature film with Jim Goldberg and numerous catalogue essays.

Mr. Brookman received degrees in 20th Century Art History and Fine Arts from the University of California, Santa Cruz.

Previous Exhibitions

Shomei Tomatsu: Skin of the Nation

Common Ground: Discovering Community in 150 Years of Art,
Selections from the Collection of Julia J. Norrell

Sally Mann:
What Remains

Front Page: The Photographs of Arthur Ellis

Robert Frank:
London/Wales

Emmet Gowin:
Changing The Earth

here is new york:
a democracy of photographs

Secret Games:
Wendy Ewald Collaborative Works With Children, 1969 - 1999

In Response to Place:
Photographs of the Nature Conservancy's Last Great Places

Arthur Tress:
Fantastic Voyage, Photographs 1956-2000

André Kertész and Theodore Fried:
Away from Home

Media Metaphor: The 46th Biennial Exhibition

Arnold Newman:
Breaking Ground

The Way Home:
Ending Homelessness in America

 

 





ALSO SEE

:: Current Corcoran Curators

:: Curator's Journals Project


Past Exhibitions


:: 2007
:: 2006
:: 2005
:: 2004
:: 2003
:: 2002
:: 2001
:: 2000

 

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