About Juliet Hacking

Program Director, MA Contemporary Art, London

Juliet Hacking began her academic career as a Visiting Lecturer (at the Universities of Derby and Reading, and the Courtauld Institute). In 1999 she took on a year-long research post at the National Portrait Gallery, London, where she also curated the exhibition and wrote the book 'Princes of Victorian Bohemia: Photographs by David Wilkie Wynfield' (Prestel, 2000). From 2000 to 2003 she was a junior specialist in the Photographs Department at Sotheby’s auction house in London; becoming, in 2003, Head of the department. She joined Sotheby's Institute of Art, London, in 2006, and was the Programme Director of the MA in Photography for 10 years. In 2016 she became a member of the MA in Contemporary Art faculty, and was recently appointed its Programme Director.

Authorships

'Lives of the Great Photographers' (2015); general editor of 'Photography: The Whole Story' (2012); ‘Photography and the Art Market’ (Lund Humphries, 2018); co-editor of 'Photography & the Arts: Essays on 19th-Century Practices and Debates' (forthcoming). She is also co-series editor of 'Hot Topics in the Art World' with Lund Humphries.


In German language 'Hinter der Kamera', Juliet Hacking portrays 38 of the most important personalities in the history of photography. By working out contexts, the portraits add to an overview of great innovations, trends and developments in photography.
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'Photography. The Whole Story' by Juliet Hacking celebrates the most beautiful photos. Works of key photographers are assessed to reveal what motivated them, who influenced whom, and what each was striving to achieve. Timelines clarify historical context.
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