Curator's Biography

Sarah Kennel
Assistant Curator
Department of Photographs

Sarah Kennel was educated at Princeton University (BA, art history) and the University of California, Berkeley (PhD, art history), completing her dissertation on the relationship between dance and the visual arts in early 20th-century Paris.

Kennel was at the National Gallery of Art from 1999 to 2001 as a Mary Davis Predoctoral Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts. She has taught classes in the history of art at the University of California, Berkeley, and at Princeton University. In 2003, Kennel was a contributor for The Art of Romare Bearden exhibition, and then joined the department of photographs where she has helped to organize All the Mighty World: The Photographs of Roger Fenton, 1852–1860 (2004), André Kertész (2005), Irving Penn: The Platinum Prints (2005), and Nicholas Nixon: The Brown Sisters (2005). She was the curator for Paris in Transition: Photographs from the National Gallery of Art (2006) and for the photography section of In the Forest of Fontainebleau: Painters and Photographers from Corot to Monet (2008).

Recent publications include essays in The Art of Romare Bearden (2003), André Kertész (2005), The Art of the American Snapshot 1888-1978 (2007), In the Forest of Fontainebleau: Painters and Photographers from Corot to Monet (2008), as well as several articles on art and culture in Paris between the wars.

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Sarah Kennel Assistant Curator Department of Photographs

Sarah Kennel
Assistant Curator
Department of Photographs