Katherine A. Bussard

Katherine A. Bussard has served as the Peter C. Bunnell Curator of Photography at the Princeton University Art Museum since 2013. Her books include So the Story Goes: Photographs by Tina Barney, Philip-Lorca diCorcia, Nan Goldin, Sally Mann, and Larry Sultan (2006); Color Rush: American Color Photography from Stieglitz to Sherman (2013); and Unfamiliar Streets: The Photographs of Richard Avedon, Charles Moore, Martha Rosler, and Philip-Lorca diCorcia (2014).  

Bussard is the coauthor of an award-winning publication exploring the intersection of photography, architecture, and urban studies, The City Lost and Found: Capturing New York, Chicago, and Los Angeles, 1960–1980 (2015). Accompanying an exhibition at the Museum, her most recent project, Life Magazine and the Power of Photography (2020), won the prestigious Alfred H. Alfred H. Barr Jr. Award for museum scholarship from the College Art Association.  

Bussard holds a PhD from the City University of New York. She serves as co-chair of the Photography Network, a global organization that fosters discussion, research, and new approaches within the field of photography and its relation to art, culture, society, and history.