Carolyn Peter started a new role as Assistant Curator in the Department of Photographs at the Getty Museum on 12 June. Carolyn joined the Getty Museum as a part-time curatorial assistant in 2018 after a varied career as a museum director at the Laband Art Gallery (2006 - 2016), and curatorial positions in photography and graphic arts at the Hammer Museum, LACMA, the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, the Herbert F. Johnson Museum at Cornell, and the Philadelphia Museum of Art.
She has her M.A. from London's Courtauld Institute of Art, where she wrote her thesis on the status of photography at the 1855 Exposition Universelle. Carolyn will be the presenting curator for 19th-Century Photography Now (curated by Karen Hellman) and the co-curator (with Karen Hellman) for Hippolyte Bayard: A Persistent Pioneer, both opening here on April 9, 2024.
See: https://www.getty.edu/author/peter-carolyn/
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