TIM GREYHAVENS

A list of the top ten stories about photography that was enhanced by philanthropy in the 2010-2010 decade.

Edward Curtis was having a very, very good day. It was early January 1906, and he had just walked out of a meeting with Wall Street...

“The fine arts,” says Donald J. Hall, “are tangible expressions of the very best kind of creativity and problem-solving. They contribute...

Keith F. Davis is the Senior Curator of Photography at the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City, Missouri. For 26 years, he was...

Lisa Sutcliffe is the Curator of Photography and Media Arts at the Milwaukee Art Museum. She came to Milwaukee in 2013 from the San...

William H. Lane was the classic “right man at the right place at the right time.” Lane, called Bill by anyone who knew him well,...

LENS: Photography Council is the donor engagement program for the Wallis Annenberg Photography Department at the Los Angeles County...

This is the first in a three-part series about the influence of philanthropist David Logan. David Logan, an important philanthropist who...

Part 2: Ken Light and the State of Documentary Photography This is the second in a three-part series about the influence of...

Shari Sant Plummer is an internationally known conservation activist, philanthropist and photographer. She is president of Code Blue...

The Breaker Boys working in Ewen Breaker of Pennsylvania Coal Co., by Lewis Hines. 1911. Library of Congress It’s not well known, but Lewis Hine, one of the icons of 20th-century documentary photography, was given an early boost by one of the first philanthropic foundations in America. The story of how philanthropy, photography and social welfare came together took more than 25 years to develop. It began in the last quarter of the 19th century with an unprecedented growth in

Westward the Course of the Empire Photography played an essential role in the Euro-American exploration of the western North America in...

“This man…sent his organization into the field of battle to take pictures of the fight that was going on…. This man has given twenty‒five...

It All Started When It Started “Blessed be the inventor of photography! I set him above even the inventor of cholorform!” ~Jane Welsh...