09 Dec 2008

Getty museum is looking for a new curator

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Olivier Laurent

The J. Paul Getty Museum in New York has announced that it was looking for a new curator of photography after Weston Naef announced he would retire in January. Naef, who moved from the Metropolitan Museum of Art to Getty in 1984, had been instrumental is making the Museum's photography collection into one of the largest in the world. It has catalogs of work from William Henry Fox Talbot, Carleton Watkins, Julia Margaret Cameron, etc.

Until the museum finds a replacement, Judith Keller will act as interim curator of photography.

Read more about Naef and the search on the New York Times website.

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