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Krista Thompson (art historian)

Krista Thompson is an art historian. She serves as Weinberg College Board of Visitors Professor and Professor in the Department of Art HistoryatNorthwestern University.^[1] Her work focuses on modern and contemporary art and visual culture of the Africa diaspora, particularly the medium of photography.^[1]

Thompson earned her PhD in 2002 from Emory University.^[1]

In 2009 Thompson won the Driskell Prize from the High Museum of Art in Atlanta, recognizing "an original and important contribution to the field of African American art or art history."^[2]

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• An Eye for the Tropics: Photography, Tourism, and Framing the Caribbean Picturesque (Duke University Press, 2006)^[3][4][5][6]
• Developing Blackness: Studio Photographs of “Over the Hill” Nassau in the Independence Era (National Art Gallery of the Bahamas, 2008)
• Shine: The Visual Economy of Light in African Diasporic Aesthetic Practice (Duke University Press, 2015)^{[7][8][9][10]}

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