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Lisa Hostetler

Lisa Hostetler is the curator of photographs at the Milwaukee Art Museum. She received her BA in Art History from New York University and holds a PhD in the History of Art from Princeton University, where she specialized in the history of photography and wrote her dissertation on Louis Faurer under the direction of Peter Bunnell. She came to Milwaukee in April of 2005 after four years in the Department of Photographs at The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York and several prior years at the Howard Greenberg Gallery. From 2000 to 2002, she taught the History of Photography as an adjunct professor at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts, and she has taught courses in the history of photography and in museum studies at the University of
Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Recent exhibitions she has curated for the Milwaukee Art Museum include Unmasked & Anonymous: Shimon & Lindemann Consider Portraiture (August 14-November 30, 2008); Photographs from the Ends of the Earth (Sept. 20-Dec. 24, 2007); In Living Color: Photographs by Saul Leiter (Sept. 28, 2006-Jan. 4, 2007); and The American West 1871-74: Photographs from the American Geographical Society Library (Oct. 27, 2005-Jan. 1, 2006). Current projects include Street Seen: The Psychological Gesture in Photography, 1940-1959, which will be on view at the Milwaukee Art Museum January 30-April 25, 2010 accompanied by a catalogue. The Street Seen exhibition and book are an in-depth study of the subjective edge that emerged in American art of the World-War-II and postwar era through the work of six key photographers-Lisette Model, Louis Faurer, Ted Croner, Saul Leiter, William Klein, and Robert Frank.

Milwaukee Museum of Art

APG shows juried by Lisa Hostetler

Southern Photographers 2009, November 13 -January 29, 2010