Joel Smith

Curator of Photography


Joel Smith received his Ph.D. from Princeton in 2000. His publications include Edward Steichen: The Early Years (1999), Steinberg at The New Yorker (2005), and a catalogue for the traveling retrospective exhibition Saul Steinberg: Illuminations (2006). He has organized exhibitions on language in twentieth-century art, wit and humor in photography, and the transmission of visual motifs through art, as well as monographic exhibitions of photographers including Andreas Feininger and Fazal Sheikh. He is currently researching the history of photographs of Nothing for an exhibition scheduled to open at the museum in 2010.

Édouard Baldus, French, born in Prussia, 1813 - 1889
The New Imperial Library of the Louvre
1856-57
Salted paper print
41.2 x 32.0 cm. (16 1/4 x 12 5/8 in.)
Museum purchase, gift of the Florence Gould Foundation
x1989-3
photo: Bruce M. White