© Poklong Anading, Anonymity 2004 – 2015 Series
November 18, 2020
Amie Potsic interviews Linde B. Lehtinen, Assistant Curator of Photography at the SFMOMA, about her curatorial work and research on photography from Hong Kong, the Philippines, and the San Francisco Bay Area. She will discuss upcoming exhibitions that shed light on current trends and directions in contemporary photography worldwide.
© Poklong Anading, b. 1975, Manila, Philippines, Counter Acts, 2004, Chromogenic transparency in lightbox four parts, approximately 90 x 48 x 5 inches (228.6 x 121.9 x 12.7 cm) each
© Poklong Anading, Counter Acts II, 2012, Chromogenic transparancies in lightboxes, 55 x 115 x 3.5 cm (21 5/8 x 45 1/4 x 1 3/8 in.), Edition of 3
Linde B. Lehtinen, Assistant Curator of Photography at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, received her BA in art history from the University of Chicago and MA and Ph.D. in art history from the University of Wisconsin–Madison. Linde has worked for several museums, including the Art Institute of Chicago, the Guggenheim, J. Paul Getty Museum, Getty Research Institute, and Skirball Cultural Center in Los Angeles. She is at work on an upcoming show, Collaborative Actions in Photography, opening Fall 2021 using SFMOMA’s permanent collection to explore the relationship between photography and collaboration from the beginnings of the medium to the present. She is also actively engaged in different research projects about contemporary Hong Kong photography and historical and contemporary Filipinx photography. In conjunction with her curatorial work, she has published several essays and presented lectures on the history of photography in the United States and Europe.