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Sandra S. Phillips is an American writer, and museum curator working in the field of photography.

"I think she is one of the best photography curators that anybody has ever known." notes Peter Galassi, chief curator of photography of the Museum of Modern Art in New York from ....

Early life and career
Phillips received a BA in art and art history from Bard College in 1967, an MA in art history from Bryn Mawr College in 1969, and earned her Ph.D in art history from the City University of New York. specializing in history of photographer and American and European art, 1849-1940.

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
Sandra S. Phillips is the Curator Emeritus of Photography at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. She joined the museum as curator of photography in 1987 and was promoted to senior curator of photography in 1999 in acknowledgement of her considerable contributions to SFMOMA. A photographic historian and former curator at the Vassar College Art Gallery in Poughkeepsie, N.Y., Phillips succeeded Van Deren Coke as head of one of the country’s most active departments of photography. Phillips stepped down from her full time position in 2016.

Exhibitions curated by Phillips

 * 1989: A History of Photography from California Collections, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, CA.
 * 1989: John Gutmann, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, CA. Retrospective exhibition.
 * 1991: Helen Levitt, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, CA.
 * 1992: Wright Morris: Origin of a Species, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, CA.
 * 1994: Dorothea Lange: American Photographs, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, CA.
 * 1995: William Klein New York 1954-1955, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, CA.
 * 1995: Commonplace Mysteries: Photographs by Peter Hujar, Andrea Modica and Bill Owens. San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, CA.
 * 1995: Public Information: Desire, Disaster, Document, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, CA. Collaborative effort with SFMOMA’s curators of media arts and painting and sculpture.
 * 1995: Ansel Adams at 100, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, CA. Curated with John Szarkowski
 * 1996: Crossing the Frontier: Photographs of the Developing West, 1849 to the Present, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, CA.
 * 1997: Police Pictures: The Photograph as Evidence, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, CA.
 * 1997: Jim Goldberg: Raised by Wolves, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, CA.
 * 2003: Diane Arbus Revelations, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, CA.
 * 2004: Daido Moriyama: Stray Dog, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, CA.
 * 2004: Shomei Tomatsu: Skin of a Nation, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, CA. Curated with Leo Rubenfien.
 * 2004: Larry Sultan: The Valley, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, CA.
 * 2005: Taking Place: Photographs from the Prentice and Paul Sack Collection, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, CA.
 * 2005: Robert Adams: Turning Back, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, CA.
 * 2005: John Szarkowski, Photographs, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, CA.
 * 2006: Mexico as Muse: Tina Modotti and Edward Weston, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, CA.
 * 2006: Beyond Real: Surrealist Photography and Sculpture from Bay Area Collections, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, CA.
 * 2007: Henry Wessel, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, CA.
 * 2009: Face of our Time, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, CA. Which included Yto Barrada, Guy Tillim, Judith Joy Ross and Leo Rubenfien,
 * 2010: Exposed: Voyeurism, Surveillance and the Camera since 1870. San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, CA. Curated with Simon Baker.
 * 2011: Face of our Time, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, CA. Which included Jim Goldberg, Daniel Schwartz, Richard Misrach, Zanele Muholi and Jacob Aue Sobel
 * 2012: Rineke Dijkstra: Retrospective, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, CA.
 * 2012: South Africa in Apartheid and After: David Goldblatt, Ernest Cole, Billy Monk. San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, CA. Retrospective exhibition.

Linda Conner

Reagan Louie

John Harding

Bill Dane

In conjunction with exhibitions curated by Phillips

 * John Gutmann: Beyond the Document, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 1989. ASIN B00LSCF3O2
 * Helen Levitt, San Francisco: San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 1991. ISBN 978-0918471208
 * Wright Morris: Origin of a Species, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 1992. ISBN 978-0918471246
 * Dorothea Lange: American Photographs, San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 1994. ISBN 978-0811807258
 * Public Information: Desire, Disaster, Document, an Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 1995. ISBN 978-1881616450
 * Crossing the Frontier: Photographs of the Developing West, 1849 to the Present, San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 1996. ISBN 978-0811814201
 * Police Pictures, San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 1997. ISBN 978-0811819848
 * Daido Moriyama: Stray Dog, San Francisco: San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 1999. ISBN 978-0918471505
 * Shomei Tomatsu: Skin of the Nation, New Haven: Yale University Press, 2004. ISBN 978-0300106046
 * Diane Arbus Revelations, Jonathan Cape Ltd, 2003. ISBN 978-0224071833
 * Ansel Adams at 100, 2001. ISBN 978-0821225158
 * Robert Adams: Turning Back, San Francisco: Fraenkel Gallery; New York: Mathew Marks Gallery, 2005. ISBN 978-1933045016
 * Taking Place: Photographs from the Prentice and Paul Sack Collection, San Francisco: San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 2005. ISBN 978-0918471789
 * John Szarkowski: Photographs. New York: Bulfinch, 2005. ISBN 9780821261989.
 * Henry Wessel. Göttingen: Steidl, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, and Die Photographische Sammlung/SK Stiftung Kultur, 2007. ISBN 978-3865213914
 * Exposed: Voyeurism, Surveillance, and the Camera Since 1870, New Haven: Yale University Press, 2010. ISBN 978-0300163438
 * Rineke Dijkstra: A Retrospective, New York: Guggenheim Museum Publications, 2012. ISBN 978-0892074242

Writing contributions by Phillips

 * Andre Kertesz: Of Paris and New York, New York: Thames and Hudson, 1985. ISBN 978-0500541067
 * Charmed Places: Hudson River Artists and their Houses, Studios and Vistas, New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1988. ASIN B01FEL4GTU
 * Perpetual Motif: The Art of Man Ray, New York: Abbeville Press, 1988. ASIN B000NUKGOM
 * Eyes of Time: Photojournalism in America, New York: New York Graphic Society, 1988. ISBN 978-0821216576
 * About Face. San Francisco: Pier 24 Photography, 2014. ISBN 978-0-9839917-2-4. Exhibition catalog. Edition of 1000 copies. With forewords by Christopher McCall, and Richard Avedon (from In The American West), an introduction by Philip Gefter, and texts by Sandra S. Phillips, and Ulrike Schneider.

Awards

 * 2000: Resident at the American Academy in Rome
 * 2000: Japan Foundation grant to study Japanese photography in Japan.
 * 2013: Vision Award, Center for Photography at Woodstock, NY.