Ute Eskildsen was Head of the Department of Photography and Associate Director of Museum Folkwang, Essen, until 2012. Previously she was also visiting curator at Harvard University’s Busch-Reisinger Museum and visiting scholar at the Getty Research Institute in Los Angeles. Over the past three decades, Eskildsen has written extensively on photography and lectured in various venues worldwide. She supervised collections of over 60,000 images and curated dozens of exhibitions, including Paul Graham. Fotografien 1981-2006 (2010-2011) and Street and Studio: An Urban History of Photography (in collaboration with Tate Modern, 2008). Recently, she published A Star is Born: Photography and Rock since Elvis (Steidl, 2010). She also edited books about Robert Frank and Auto Steinert, about film and photography in the 1920s and about women photographers from that decade.
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◇ Curators from Germany - A - G - Eskildsen, Ute - Goethe-Institut
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◇ Ute Eskildsen: An Interview | Video Data Bank
German curator Ute Eskildsen (b. 1947) was born in Itzehoe (Schleswig-Holstein). After studying photography and working as an assistant in a fashion and portrait studio, she went on to study photography and the history of photography at the Folkwang School of Portraiture in Essen. A fellow in Visual Communication at the Essen University, she served as assistant to Otto Steinert in the field of photo-history exhibitions. In addition to serving as an intern at the International Museum or Photography in Rochester, she was a curator at the Busch-Reisinger Museum in Cambridge, MA and a visiting scholar at the Getty Research Institute in Los Angeles. In 1978 she established the photography department at the Folkswang Museum, where she is director of the photography collection and since 1991 deputy director of the museum.
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◇ Travel Book Review: Paul Strand: The World On My Doorstep by Ute Eskildsen, Paul Strand, Catherin... - YouTube
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◇ ROBERT FRANK - PHOTOGRAPHER - HOLD STILL KEEP GOING - YouTube
Robert Frank, Photographer, signing his books, Hold Still - Keep Going, Folkwang Museum 2000, with Ute Eskildsen. A film by Horst Herz. c Herz-Filmproduktion, Ruhrcity Dortmund Germany 2000. www.filmsite.de
