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A.D. Coleman

About The Author

A. D. Coleman is an internationally known critic of photography and photo-based art, and a widely published commentator on new digital
technologies. In 2002 he received the Culture Prize of the German Photographic Society — the first critic of photography ever so honored.
In 2010 he received the J Dudley Johnston Award from the Royal Photographic Society (U.K.) for "sustained excellence in writing about photography." In 2014 he received the Society for Photographic Education's Insight Award for lifetime contribution to the field, and in
2015 both the Society of Professional Journalists SDX Award for Research About Journalism and The Photo Review Award "for outstanding
contributions to photography, including the investigation of Robert Capa’s D-Day photographs."

Coleman has published 8 books and more than 2500 essays on photography and related subjects. Formerly a columnist for the Village Voice, the New York Times, and the New York Observer, Coleman has contributed to ARTnews, Art On Paper, Technology Review, Ag (England), European Photography (Germany), La Fotografia (Spain), and Art Today (China). His work has been translated into 22 languages and published in 32 countries.

Coleman's widely read blog "Photocritic International" appears at photocritic.com. Since 2005, exhibitions that he has curated have opened
at museums, galleries, and festivals in Canada, China, Finland, Italy, Rumania, Slovakia, and the U.S.