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"I'm less interested in photography than in artists who use photography."
Robert A. Sobieszek, 1992

Robert A. Sobieszek

From 1990 until his untimely death in 2005, Robert A. Sobieszek was senior curator and head of the Photography Department at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Here is a five-minute interactive slideshow highlighting photographs acquired during the tenure of this influential and passionate curator.

This is an abridged version of a Powerpoint presentation featured in  A Curator's Eye: The Visual Legacy of Robert A. Sobieszek, an exhibition of more than 30 framed works that were on view in the Hammer Building at LACMA through Aug. 20, 2006.

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The late curator Robert A. Sobieszek expanded LACMA's photography collection by more than 6,000 works. Here, in his memory, are 38 of them.

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