BRITT SALVESEN joined LACMA (Los Angeles County Museum of Art) in October 2009 as Curator and head of the Wallis Annenberg Photography Department and the Department of Prints and Drawings. Previously, she was Director and Chief Curator at the Center for Creative Photography (CCP), University of Arizona, having been curator there since October 2004. She also served as an adjunct professor in the University of Arizona’s Art History Division. Prior to joining CCP, Salvesen was associate curator of prints, drawings, and photographs at the Milwaukee Art Museum (2002–04), and associate editor of scholarly publications at the Art Institute of Chicago (1994–2002). She received her MA from the Courtauld Institute of Art (1991) and her PhD from the University of Chicago (1997), earning honors for her dissertation, “Selling Sight: Stereoscopy in Mid-Victorian Britain.” Salvesen received a Getty Curatorial Research Fellowship in summer 2007 for her work on the theme of the office in contemporary photography, and was a 2009 fellow in the Center for Curatorial Leadership. Her most recent exhibition project is New Topographics, for which she was awarded a Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center residency in spring 2008. New Topographics will travel to seven venues, including LACMA, in the US and Europe in 2009-12.