De Santos Gallery Presents Building A Fine Photography Art Collection" with Anne Tucker September 14; Gallery Launches Photography Lecture Series with MFA Curator

In its continued effort to provide the best in cutting edge photography, photographic services and techniques, De Santos Gallery (1724-B Richmond) launches The Photography Lecture Series with Museum of Fine Arts curator Anne Tucker Thursday September 14 at 6:30p.m. Admission is free but seating is limited.

Houston TX (PRWEB) August 21, 2005 -- In its continued effort to provide the best in cutting edge photography, photographic services and techniques, De Santos Gallery (1724-B Richmond) launches The Photography Lecture Series with Museum of Fine Arts curator Anne Tucker Thursday September 14th at 6:30p.m. Admission is free but seating is limited.

Anne Wilkes Tucker was born in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, where she attended public schools. She received undergraduate degrees from Randolph Macon Woman's College and Rochester Institute of Technology and a graduate degree from the Visual Studies Workshop, a division of the State University of New York. While in graduate school, she worked at the George Eastman House in Rochester and at the Gernsheim collection at the University of Texas, Austin. In 1970-71, she was a curatorial intern in the photography department of Museum of Modern Art, New York.

She is currently the Gus and Lyndall Wortham Curator of Photography at The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston where she has worked since 1976. She founded the Photography Department at the museum that now has a collection of over 20,000 photographs. She has curated over forty exhibitions including retrospectives for Robert Frank, Ray K. Metzker, Brassaļ, George Krause, Louis Faurer and Richard Misrach, as well as surveys on the Czech Avant-garde, Allan Chasanoff collection, and the History of Japanese Photography.

Most recently, she co-curated with DJ Stout the exhibition First Down Houston: The Birth of an NFL Franchaise with photographs by Robert Clark. Most of these exhibitions were accompanied by a publication; she has published many articles and lectured throughout the U.S., Europe, Asia and Latin America. She has been awarded fellowships by the National Endowment for the Arts and the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation and The Getty Center, and received an Alumnae Achievement award from Randolph Macon Woman's College. In 2001, in an issue devoted to Americas Best," TIME magazine honored her as Americas Best Curator."

The De Santos Gallery is owned and directed by Gemma and Luis De Santos who are natives of Spain and long-time residents of Houston. They commissioned Houston architect Fernando Bravo who recently won the 2005 American Institute of Architects Design Award for the building design. The DeSantos Gallery specializes in photography (including traditional and new media) from contemporary European and Asian photographers.

The De Santos Gallery is located at 1724-A Richmond Avenue in Houstons Museum District. Gallery hours are Wednesday through Saturday from 10:30 a.m. - 5 p.m. For more information, please call 713-520-1200 or visit www.desantosgallery.com

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