James Lyle Enyeart (born January 13, 1943, in

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) is an American photographer, scholar and museum director.

Career

Enyeart was the sixth director of the

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(then, George Eastman House) from 1989 to 1995. Before that he served as Director of the

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at the University of Arizona from 1977 to 1989. In the mid-1970s he was Director of the

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in Carmel, California and prior to that was Curator of Photography at the Spencer Museum of art at the University of Kansas from 1968 to 1976. He has held professorships concurrent with his university appointments and was Founding Director of the Anne and John Marion Center for Photographic Arts at the

College of Santa Fe Santa Fe University of Art and Design (SFUAD) was a private, for-profit art school in Santa Fe, New Mexico. The university was built from the non-profit College of Santa Fe (CSF), a Catholic facility founded as St. Michael's College in 1859, an ...

(now

Santa Fe University of Art and Design Santa Fe University of Art and Design (SFUAD) was a private, for-profit art school in Santa Fe, New Mexico. The university was built from the non-profit College of Santa Fe (CSF), a Catholic facility founded as St. Michael's College in 1859, and ...

) from 1995 to 2002, now Emeritus Anne and John Marion Professor.

Awards

Enyeart has received a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship and several other awards, including the Josef Sudek Medal from the Czech Republic, the Photographic Society of Japan achievement award, and the Photokina Obelisk, Cologne, Germany.

Published works

He is also the author of numerous books, including works published by Knopf, Little Brown, Inc, ''

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'', Johns Hopkins University Press, University of New Mexico Press, University of Arizona Press, the Museum of New Mexico Press, among others.Books by James L. Enyeart
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, the

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, the

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in Paris, the

, Sheldon Memorial Gallery, Kiasato Museum of Photography, Japan,

the Irish Museum of Modern Art The Irish Museum of Modern Art ( ga, Áras Nua-Ealaíne na hÉireann) also known as IMMA, is Ireland's leading national institution for the collection and presentation of modern and contemporary art. Located in Kilmainham, Dublin, the Museum pr ...

, and other museums and private collections.

References

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