Event Title
Digital Debuts: Discovering Life Histories of Women Photographers in the Electronic Age
Speaker Bio
Beverly W. Brannan is curator of documentary photography in the Prints and Photographs Division of the Library of Congress. She is co-curator of Women Come to the Front: Journalists, Photographers and Broadcasters During World War II (1995) and co-author of Re-viewing Documentary: The Photographic Life of Louise Rosskam 2011. Brannan's writing on the Farm Security Administration photographs includes: Documenting America (1988), and FSA: The American Vision (2006). She contributed to African American Mosaic: A Library of Congress Resource Guide for the Study of Black History and Culture (1993), Toni Frissell: Photographs 1935 to 1969 (1994) and Eyes of the Nation: A Visual History of the United States (1997). Her awards include: Judith Rothschild Foundation grant for an exhibition and catalog about the photographs of Louise Rosskam; James H. Billington Fellows award to record oral histories of female photojournalists. She is developing a website about female photojournalists in the Library's collections at http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/printcoll/womphotoj.
Digital Debuts: Discovering Life Histories of Women Photographers in the Electronic Age