Nominators
William Ewing
William A. Ewing is an internationally respected specialist on photography, a writer, exhibition curator, professor, and museum director. After founding Optica Center for Contemporary Art in Montreal in 1972, he moved to New York in 1977 to take up the post as Director of Exhibitions at the International Center of Photography. In 1991 he moved to London as a freelance curator and author, and in 1996 was appointed Director of the Musée de l'Elysée in Lausanne, Switzerland, where he remains today. The Musée de l'Elysée is considered one of the world's foremost institutions specializing in photography.
Over the years Mr Ewing's exhibitions have been shown in England at the Serpentine Gallery, the Whitechapel Art Gallery, the Photographer's Gallery, and the Wellcome Institute of Medical History, among other museums and galleries in Switzerland. In France they have appeared at the Musée du Jeu de Paume, the Centre Pompidou, la Maison Européenne de la Photographie, and the Musée Carnavalet in Paris; and in the USA at the Museum of Modern Art, the International Center of Photography and the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York, as well as many other major museums throughout the country. In Canada, Mr Ewing’s exhibitions have been shown at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, the Royal Ontario Museum, the Vancouver Art Gallery, and of course, Optica Center for Contemporary Art.
Mr Ewing's books include: The Body (Thames & Hudson, 1994); Love & Desire,T&H, 1999); The Century of the Body 1900--2000 (T&H/Elysée, 2000); Flora Photographica (T&H, 1991); The Photographic Art of Hoyningen-Huene (T&H,1986), Inside Information: Imaging the Interior of the Human Body (1998), and America Worked: the 1950s Photography of Dan Weiner (Harry N. Abrams,1988); Face: The New Photographic Portrait (T&H/Elysée, 2006).
Mr Ewing has written innumerable magazine articles for magazines and newspapers as different as House & Garden, the Evening Standard, Aperture and Next Level.
He lectures widely on the international circuit and for five years has taught the history of photography at the University of Geneva.
