Rebecca Senf
Rebecca Senf | |
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| Born | 1972 (age 51–52) |
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| Nationality | American |
| Education | University of Arizona (BA) Boston University (MA, PhD) |
| Children | 2 |
Rebecca A. “Becky” Senf (born 1972) is an American writer, and curator working in the field of photography.[1] She is the Chief Curator at the Center for Creative Photography (CCP).[2] She joined the CCP as Norton Family Assistant Curator in 2007, which was a joint appointment with Phoenix Art Museum, and was promoted to Chief Curator in 2016.
Biography
[edit]Senf grew up in Tucson, Arizona, the daughter of an amateur photographer who inspired her early awareness of the medium and the powerful influence of light.[3] She received a B.A. in art history from the University of Arizona in 1994, and M.A. and Ph.D. in Art History from Boston University, in 2001 and 2008 respectively.[4] Her doctoral dissertation was on Ansel Adams. [5] [6]
Senf worked at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston from 2000 to 2005, where she co-curated a major exhibition of Ansel Adams’ work, with Karen Haas, and co-authored the exhibition catalogue, Ansel Adams from the Lane Collection. In the catalogue, a section created by Senf that reproduces Adams' stamps and labels has become the standard used by major auction houses, such as Christie's and Sotheby's, to indicate which of Adams' stamps/labels appears on a particular work of art, referring to the stamp or label with a Boston Museum of Fine Arts, BMFA number.[7] [8]
During her time at the Center for Creative Photography and Phoenix Art Museum, Senf has curated both contemporary and historical photographic exhibitions, including working with Mark Klett and Byron Wolfe, Linda Connor, and Betsy Schneider, and produced exhibitions on Group f/64, platinum photography, and photographic books. [9] [10] [11] [12] [13]
She currently lives in Tucson and has two children. [14]
Exhibitions curated by Senf
[edit]2005: Ansel Adams in the Lane Collection, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Co-curated with Karen Haas.
2007: Debating Modern Photography: The Triumph of Group f/64, Phoenix Art Museum, Center for Creative Photography, and Portland Museum of Art [shown in Tucson in 2008 and in ME in 2010].[15] [16]
2008: Richard Avedon: Photographer of Influence, Phoenix Art Museum and Nassau County Museum of Art [shown in NY IN 2011] [17]
2008: Odyssey: Photographs of Linda Connor, Center for Creative Photography, Palm Springs Art Museum, Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, and Southeast Museum of Photography, Daytona, FL [shown in Tucson in 2009, in Palm Springs in 2009/2010, in Rhode Island in 2010 and in Daytona, FL in 2010/2011] [18]
2009: Face to Face: 150 Years of Photographic Portraiture, Phoenix Art Museum [19]
2010: Ansel Adams: Discoveries, Phoenix Art Museum[20]
2011: The Bridge at Hoover Dam: Photographs by Jamey Stillings, Phoenix Art Museum [21]
2014: INFOCUS Exhibition of Self-Published Photobooks, Phoenix Art Museum [22]
2014: All that Glitters is Not Gold: Platinum Photography from the Center for Creative Photography, Phoenix Art Museum[23]
2015: Not MY Family Values, Art Photo Index online [24]
2018: To Be Thirteen: Photographs and Videos by Betsy Schneider, Phoenix Art Museum [25]
2018: Richard Avedon: Relationships, Center for Creative Photography [26] [27]
Publications
[edit]In conjunction with exhibitions curated by Senf:
Ansel Adams in the Lane Collection, Boston: Museum of Fine Arts, 2005 [28]
Reconstructing the View: The Grand Canyon Photographs of Mark Klett and Byron Wolfe, Berkeley: University of California Press, 2012 [29]
David Taylor: Monuments, Santa Fe: Radius Books/Nevada Museum of Art, 2015[30]
Betsy Schneider: To Be Thirteen, Santa Fe: Radius Books/Phoenix Art Museum, 2017 [31]
Books by Senf
[edit]Making a Photographer: The Early Work of Ansel Adams, New Haven: Yale University Press/Center for Creative Photography, 2020 [32]
Writing contributions by Senf
[edit]Before and After Photography: Histories and Contexts, New York: Bloomsbury, 2017 [33]
Awards
[edit]2012: "Best Curator" by the Arizona Republic[34]
2014: "Rising Star Focus Award" by Griffin Museum of Photography in Winchester, MA [35]
References
[edit]- ^ Jean Dykstra, "The Curators", photograph magazine, September/October 2016
- ^ "Contact Us: Rebecca (Becky) Senf", ccp.arizona.edu
- ^ Aline Smithson, "The Rebecca Senf Mixtape", Lenscratch, November 15, 2013
- ^ "Rebecca (Becky) Senf", Center for Creative Photography
- ^ "Drawings/Prints/Works on Paper: Dissertations Completed by Subject, 2008" caareviews.org
- ^ Rebecca A. Senf, "Ansel Adams's "practical Modernism": The Development of a Commercial Photographer, 1916-1936" listed on Google books
- ^ Example of Auction Lot: Ansel Adams, Grass and Pool, Tuolumne Meadows, Yosemite National Park, California, c. 1935 with BMFA Stamp 4, Christie's
- ^ Example of Auction Lot: Ansel Adams, Moonrise, Hernandez, New Mexico with BFMA 111, Sotheby's
- ^ Christina O'Haver, "Charting the Canyon", Downtown Phoenix Journal, May 29, 2009
- ^ Alain R. Truong, "Odyssey: The Photographs of Linda Connor", alaintruong.com, December 7, 2008
- ^ "Exhibition Chronicles Turning Point in American Photography", ccp.arizona.edu, February 11, 2008
- ^ Celina Jimenez, "'Platinum' Brings Tasteful Photography Showcase to Phoenix Art Museum", The State Press, February 15, 2015
- ^ Mark Brodie, "Self-published Photo Books On Display In Exhibit At Phoenix Art Museum", kjzz.org, September 5, 2014
- ^ "About Rebecca Senf", Art Photo Index
- ^ La Monica Everett-Haynes, "The Modern Photography Debate Explored", uanews.arizona.edu, February 12, 2008
- ^ Editor, "Photographs by Group f/64 on View this Fall at the Portland Museum of Art", museumpublicity.com, April 5, 2010
- ^ Martha Schwendener, "Avedon, Breaking Through the Artifice of Celebrity", The New York Times, June 25, 2011
- ^ "Odyssey: The Photographs of Linda Connor Now Open at Phoenix Art Museum" Art Daily
- ^ "Get Upclose and Personal with Portraits at Phoenix Art Museum Photography Exhibition", Art Daily
- ^ "Phoenix Art Museum is the Exclusive Venue for Ansel Adams: Discoveries", Art Daily
- ^ "Photo Essay by Photographer Jamey Stillings Captures the Construction of a New Industrial Wonder", Art Daily
- ^ "Juried exhibition of self-published photobooks opening at Phoenix Art Museum", Art Daily
- ^ "All That Glitters is Not Gold" phxart.org
- ^ "Not MY Family Values – An Art Photo Index exhibition by Rebecca Senf", Art Photo Index
- ^ "Phoenix Art Museum presents works chronicling the experience of being a teen in the United States", Art Daily
- ^ Ann Brown, "Avedon exhibit at Tucson's Center for Creative Photography puts relationships into focus" Arizona Daily Star, December 12, 2018
- ^ Margaret Regan, "Up Close and Personal: Avedon’s spectacular portraits at CCP capture boldface names of late 20th century", Tucson Weekly, January 24, 2019
- ^ "Ansel Adams in the Lane Collection", listed on Amazon
- ^ "Reconstructing the View: The Grand Canyon Photographs of Mark Klett and Byron Wolfe", listed on Amazon
- ^ Taylor, David, 1965- (2015). Monuments : 276 views of the United States-Mexico border. Carter, Claire C.,, Arreola, Daniel D. (Daniel David), 1950-, Fox, William L., 1949-, Senf, Rebecca., Taylor, David, 1965-, Taylor, David, 1965-. Santa Fe, NM. ISBN 978-1-934435-90-8. OCLC 898530818.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link) - ^ "Betsy Schneider: To Be Thirteen", listed on Amazon
- ^ "Making a Photographer: The Early Work of Ansel Adams", listed on Amazon
- ^ "Before and After Photography: Histories and Contexts", listed on Amazon
- ^ Richard Nilsen, "Best Curator: Rebecca Senf", azcentral.com, March 20, 2012
- ^ "Rising Star – 2014", griffinmuseum.org, September 9, 2014