Contemporary U.S. Photography, ('Whatever Was Splendid: New American Photographs', Essay by Aaron Schuman)

'Contemporary U.S.Photography' includes significant essays on current U.S. photography and contemporary curatorial perspectives by the curators commissioned by FotoFest for this Biennial. The curators writing for the catalogue are: CHARLOTTE COTTON, Creative Director, National Media Museum, Bradford, U.K.; former Head of the Wallis Annenberg Department of Photography, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and Associate Curator EDWARD ROBINSON, Deputy Curator, Wallis Annenberg Department of Photography, Los Angeles County Museum of Art; NATASHA EGAN, Associate Director and Curator, Museum of Contemporary Photography, Columbia College, Chicago; GILBERT VICARIO, Curator of the Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, Iowa and former Assistant Curator of Latin American Art and Latino Art, Museum of Fine Arts Houston; AARON SCHUMAN, editor and co-founder of Seesaw Magazine, an avant-garde online journal of photography, as well as an independent curator and critic. Together, the curators represent some of the leading voices in contemporary photographic art today...