Mary Panzer

Historian of Photography and American Culture

Studying photography as art, document and cultural history since 1980. Curator of Photographs, National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution 1992-2000. Biographer of Mathew Brady, Philippe Halsman, H.C. Anderson, Romana Javitz.  
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Research Interests
Magazine Photography, Photojournalism, Documentary Photography, Photography in the Public Sphere, Historiography, The Art Market, Photography in the 19th and 20th Centuries.

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Affiliations
Boston University (American and New England  Studies Program)  
Yale College
Oracle (International Curators of Photography)
American Society of Appraisers
Roeper School (Bloomfield Hills, MI)