Moore, Kevin D. 1964-

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Moore, Kevin D. 1964-

PERSONAL:

Born October 10, 1964, in Kansas City, MO; son of Jerry (a shipping company manager) and Eloyce Kay (a homemaker) Moore; companion of Jason Siebenmorgen (a landscape architect). Ethnicity: "White." Education: Attended St. Peter's College, Oxford, 1985-86; William Jewell College, B.A., 1987; University of Missouri—Kansas City, M.A., 1996; Princeton University, M.A., 1997, Ph.D., 2002. Politics: Democrat.

ADDRESSES:

Home—North Branch, NY. E-mail—kdmoore@alumni.princeton.edu.

CAREER:

Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, worked in library acquisitions, 1987-92; Hallmark Photographic Collection, Kansas City, research assistant, 1993-94; Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, curatorial assistant, 1994-95; Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY, Chester Dale fellow in department of photographs, 1999-2000; Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, curatorial assistant at Fogg Art Museum, 2002, Henry Luce Foundation research associate in American art, 2002-04; Art Advisory Services, New York, NY, senior specialist in photography, 2004-06; private art curator, 2006—. Boston University, visiting professor, 2002; speaker at other institutions, including University of Kansas, University of Toronto, and Williams College; also appeared in British television documentaries about Jacques Henri Lartigue.

MEMBER:

College Art Association of America.

AWARDS, HONORS:

Grant from Mellon Foundation, 1997; grant for Paris, Institut Français de Washington, 1997; Fulbright grant for Paris, 1998-99; Whiting Foundation grant, 2000-01.

WRITINGS:

Jacques Henri Lartigue: The Invention of an Artist, Princeton University Press (Princeton, NJ), 2004.

Contributor to books, including Lartigue: The Album of a Century, Harry N. Abrams (New York, NY), 2003; Jackie Nickerson: Faith, 2006; and New York Rises: Photographs by Eugene de Salignac, Aperture (New York, NY), 2007. Contributor to periodicals, including History of Photography.

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