Sandra S. Phillips

Sandra S. Phillips is a writer, editor, and curator emerita of photography at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. During her nearly thirty-year tenure at SFMOMA, Phillips curated numerous influential exhibitions, including Police Pictures: The Photograph as Evidence (1997), the first exhibition to examine historical and contemporary photographs taken as evidence; Daido Moriyama: Stray Dog (1999), the first museum exhibition to survey the work of this important postwar Japanese photographer...See more

Sandra S. Phillips is a writer, editor, and curator emerita of photography at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. During her nearly thirty-year tenure at SFMOMA, Phillips curated numerous influential exhibitions, including Police Pictures: The Photograph as Evidence (1997), the first exhibition to examine historical and contemporary photographs taken as evidence; Daido Moriyama: Stray Dog (1999), the first museum exhibition to survey the work of this important postwar Japanese photographer; Ansel Adams at 100 (2001), organized with John Szarkowski; and Diane Arbus: Revelations (2003), the first complete showing of Arbus's legendary photographs and writings. Phillips's most recent publication is American Geography: Photographs of Land Use from 1840 to the Present (2021). See less