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
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