Travis, David

A renowned curator, David Travis has written extensively about modernist photography. In 1975, he founded the Department of Photography at the Art Institute of Chicago. During a thirty-five-year career, he organized more than 150 exhibitions and published many foundational texts in the field. His exhibitions have toured museums in the United States, Europe, and Asia. In 2003, a selection of his lectures and essays, At the Edge of the Light: Thoughts on Photography

& Photographers, on Talent & Genius, was published by Godine.