Anna Dannemann leads a short, informal tour of the Helen Levitt: In the Street exhibition across two floors of The Photographers' Gallery.
Anna collaborated closely with Walter Moser, Chief Curator of Photography at the Albertina Museum, Vienna on the exhibition.
Free, no booking required
Biography:
Anna Dannemann is Senior Curator at The Photographers' Gallery. She has worked with many leading contemporary photographers and curated the Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize for the past six years from 2016 until 2021. She has also organised several solo exhibitions, including Alex Prager’s Silver Lake Drive in 2018; Simon Fujiwara’s Joanne in 2016; Charlotte Dumas’ Anima & The Widest Prairies in 2015; Viviane Sassen's Analemma in 2014.
Anna has also worked with a range of external curators to realise thematic group shows including: Feminist Avant-Garde of the 1970s (2016), 4 Saints in 3 Acts: A Snapshot of the American Avant-Garde (2017), Work Rest and Play – 50 Years of British Photography (exhibited in four venues in China, 2015-16), and an exhibition of photographic work by the acclaimed writer and cult figure William Burroughs. From 2013-2015, she organised the emerging talent programme FreshFaced+WildEyed. She regularly contributes to catalogues and other publications and received an MA in Art History from the Humboldt University in Berlin, Germany.
This event is supported by the U.S. Embassy London