Lindsay Harris Author

Lindsay Harris is a scholar of modern and contemporary art and architecture, with an emphasis on the history of photography. Her research investigates the ways photographs both document and shape the course of modernity. She has contributed to exhibitions at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, the Joan Miro Foundation, Barcelona, and the American Academy in Rome, where she was awarded a postdoctoral fellowship and served as the Andrew W. Mellon Professor of the Humanities and the Andrew Heiskell Arts Director. She presently heads the Research and Scholars Center at the Smithsonian American Art Museum.