Colin Westerbeck
{{short description|American art historian}}
Colin Leslie Westerbeck Jr.{{Cite news| issn = 0362-4331| title = Colin Westerbeck Jr. To Wed Penelope Butts| work = The New York Times| accessdate = 2021-04-19| date = 1965-02-13| url = https://www.nytimes.com/1965/02/13/archives/colin-westerbeck-jr-to-wed-penelope-butts.html}} is a curator, writer, and teacher of the history of photography.
Before moving to Los Angeles, where he has taught at UCLA and USC, he was curator of photography at the Art Institute of Chicago. He is a regular contributor to publications such as the Los Angeles Times and West Magazine.{{cite news|url=http://www.latimes.com/services/newspaper/mediacenter/releases/la-mediacenter-2006-0112,0,5263531.story?coll=la-mediacenter-releases|title=Los Angeles Times to Launch 'West' Magazine Feb. 5|access-date=September 29, 2007|work=Los Angeles Times|author=Los Angeles Times | date=2006-01-12}}{{Cite web|url=http://www.hachettebookgroupusa.com/authors/43/637/index.html|title=Colin Westerbeck biography|access-date=September 29, 2007|publisher=Hachette Book Group USA USA|year=2007|author=Hachette Book Group|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080214231133/http://www.hachettebookgroupusa.com/authors/43/637/index.html|archive-date=February 14, 2008|url-status=dead}}{{Cite web|url=http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1G1-19092165.html|title=Chicago Art Institute pays $185,000 for Douglass portrait.(portrait of Frederick Douglass)|access-date=September 29, 2007|publisher=Ebony magazine|year=1997|author=Westerbeck, Colin}} Before he began writing on photography, he was a film critic for Commonweal.{{Cite web| last = Ely| first = Paula| title = Colin Westerbeck| work = PHOTOCULTURE| accessdate = 2021-04-19| date = 2019-07-24| url = https://www.photoculture.la/blog/2019/7/22/w0cqrcqx62b1tk13eb8exmlkbkwb0q}}
Awards
- Reva and David Logan Prize for New Writing on Photography.{{cite web |last1=Y |first1=D |title=New Writing On Photography |url=http://www.loganfdn.org/grants-in-support-of-new-writing-on-photography.html |website=The Reva & David Logan Foundation |access-date=23 February 2019 |archive-date=18 October 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211018234632/https://www.loganfdn.org/grants-in-support-of-new-writing-on-photography.html |url-status=dead }}
- Art Critic's Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts.{{cite web |last1=THORNTON |first1=GENE |title=PHOTOGRAPHY VIEW THE MASTERLY STYLE OF MEYEROWITZ |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1981/06/27/arts/photography-view-the-masterly-style-of-meyerowitz.html |website=New York Times |date=27 June 1981|accessdate=23 February 2019}}
- Received a grant, along with Joel Meyerowitz, from the National Endowment for the Humanities for research on the history of street photography.{{citation needed|date=September 2014}}
- 2000: J. Dudley Johnston Award from the Royal Photographic Society for the writing of photographic criticism and history.{{Cite web|url=http://www.rps.org/annual-awards/J-Dudley-Johnston-Award|title=J Dudley Johnston Award|publisher=Royal Photographic Society|access-date=2010-12-12}}
Publications
- {{cite book | last = Westerbeck | first = Colin | title = What's New, Prague | publisher = Art Institute of Chicago | location = Chicago | year = 1992 | pages=33 pages|isbn = 0-86559-114-8}}
- {{cite book |author=Art Institute of Chicago |author2=Ishimoto, Yasuhiro |author3=Isozaki, Arata |author4=Westerbeck, Colin |author5=Fuminori Yokoe |title=Yasuhiro Ishimoto: A Tale of Two Cities |publisher=Art Institute of Chicago |location=Chicago, Ill |year= 1999|isbn=0-86559-170-9 }}
- {{cite book |author=Rossen, Susan F. |author2=Colin L. Westerbeck (Author), Art Institute Of Chicago (Author) |title=African Americans in art: selections from the Art Institute of Chicago |publisher=The Art Institute of Chicago in association with University of Washington Press |location=Chicago, Ill |year=1999 |pages=[https://archive.org/details/africanamericans00susa/page/136 136 pages] |isbn=0-295-97833-3 |url-access=registration |url=https://archive.org/details/africanamericans00susa/page/136 }}
- {{cite book |title=Renaissance jewelry in the Alsdorf Collection |publisher=Art Institute of Chicago |location=Chicago, Ill |year=2000 |pages=[https://archive.org/details/renaissancejewel0000arti/page/136 136 pages] |isbn=0-86559-153-9 |url=https://archive.org/details/renaissancejewel0000arti/page/136 }}
- {{cite book |author1=Westerbeck, Colin |author2=Meyerowitz, Joel |title=Bystander: a history of street photography: with a new afterword on street photography since the 1970s |publisher=Bulfinch Press |location=Boston |year=2001 |pages=440 pages |isbn=0-8212-2726-2 }}{{Cite web|url=http://www.nysun.com/article/63043|title=Arts & Letters - Winogrand's Scenes From the Street:Photography|access-date=September 29, 2007|publisher=The New York Sun|year=2007|author=William Meyers}}
- {{cite book |author=Westerbeck, Colin |author2=Bey, Dawoud |author3=James Vanderzee |editor=Van Der Zee, James |title=The James Van Der Zee studio |publisher=Art Institute of Chicago |location=Chicago, Ill |year=2004 |pages= 36 pages|isbn=0-86559-210-1 }}
- {{cite book |author1=Westerbeck, Colin |author2=Schaffner, Ingrid | title = Accommodations of Desire | publisher = Curatorial Assistance, Inc. | location = Los Angeles | year = 2005 | pages=128 pages| isbn = 0-9707913-2-1}}
- {{cite book | last = Westerbeck | first = Colin | title = Joel Meyerowitz | publisher = Phaidon Press | location = London | pages=128 pages| year = 2005 | isbn = 978-0-7148-4509-8}}
- {{cite book |author1=Wagner, Bruce |author2=Breisch, Kenneth A. |author3=Keller, Judith |author4=Westerbeck, Colin |title=Where We Live: Photographs of America from the Berman Collection |publisher=J. Paul Getty Trust: J. Paul Getty Museum |location=Los Angeles |year=2006 |pages=192 pages |isbn=0-89236-854-3 }}
- {{cite book |author=Westerbeck, Colin |title=Irving Penn: A Career in Photography |publisher=Art Institute of Chicago |location=Chicago, Ill |year=2007 |pages=192 pages |isbn=978-0-300-12236-7 }}
References
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External links
- [http://www.conversationsonthearts.com/Colin_Westerbeck_Interview.mp3 Westerbeck interview with Irit Krygier, 2009]
- [http://www.luminous-lint.com/__sw.php?action=ACT_SING_BLO&p1=Colin__Westerbeck_01&p2=1 Westerbeck's articles on photography]
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