BIOBIBLIOGRAPHY ........................... Boston/ *USA 1950 Deborah Bright is a photographer and widely-published writer on photography and social issues. Bright's photographic work has been featured internationally in exhibitions at the Victoria and Albert Museum; the Museet for Fotokunst, Denmark; the Institute for Contemporary Art, Boston; the International Center of Photography, New York; the Addison Gallery of American Art; the Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography; and Cambridge Darkroom, Scotland. She is currently represented by the Bernard Toale Gallery in Boston. Her photographs are included in the permanent collections of the Victoria and Albert Museum; the National Museum of American Art; the Addison Gallery of American Art; the Rose Art Museum at Brandeis University; and the Fogg Art Museum at Harvard University. A former Bunting Fellow at Harvard, she has received awards from the National Endowments for the Arts and Humanities, the New England Foundation for the Arts, and Art Matters. Her edited book on photography and sexuality, "The Passionate Camera: Photography and bodies of desire", was nominated for a Lambda Literary Award in 1999. She is professor of photography and art history at the Rhode Island School of Design. |
