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Paul Getty Museum (2000).  She is currently curating (with Sam Mellon) WRONG: Rules and Irreverence in the Arts, 1945 to 1975 for a future museum venue, and S/He, an exhibition exploring gender relations in Southern California photography from 1965-1985.

Sam Mellon is a curator, musician, and visual artist based in Los Angeles.  In 2008, in conjunction with Outpost for Contemporary Art in Highland Park, he founded Open Gallery (with Kamil Beski), an alternative exhibition space devoted to showing emerging conceptual artists and photographers.  He has organized numerous exhibitions, including shows by artists Veaceslav Druta, Louisa Van Leer, Jed Lind, Jill Newman, Kris Cunz, Lindsay Foster (with Claudia Bohn-Spector), Olexander Gnilitsky, Pat Pickett, and Ed Gomez.  As a musician he has produced two critically acclaimed albums, including Sam Mellon and the Skylarks' 2006 self-titled debut album and the forthcoming Listen to the Birds Sing You the Truth, scheduled for release in 2010.  With Bohn-Spector, he is organizing WRONG: Rules and Irreverence in American Art, 1945 to the Present, and S/He, an exhibition exploring gender relations in Southern California photography from 1965-1985.  Mellon currently serves as the Director of Exhibition Services at Curatorial Assistance, Inc., in Pasadena, CA.

THE CONTRIBUTORS

Colin Westerbeck is a prolific writer on the history of photography.  He currently serves as the Director of the California Museum of Photography at the University of California, Riverside.  After moving to Los Angeles in 2003, he wrote a weekly column on photography for the Los Angeles Times and taught photographic history at the University of California, Los Angeles, as well as the university of Southern California.  From 1986 until 2003, he was a Curator of Photography at the Art Institute of Chicago, where he organized a series of path-breaking exhibitions.  Among his publications are Bystander, A History of Street Photography, co-authored with Joel Meyerowitz, and Irving Penn, A Career in Photography.

Carolyn Peter is director and curator of the Laband Art Gallery at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles.  She had held curatorial positions at the Hammer Museum at UCLA, the Johnson Museum at Cornell University, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco.  She has curated a number of exhibitions focused on different aspects of photography, including Stephen Berkman: Chamber Pieces, A Fine Experiment: A Tribute to Robert Heinecken, Africa's Legacy in Mexico: The Photographs of Tony Gleaton, and A Letter from Japan: The Photographs of John Swope.  She is currently working on Gallery 32 and Its Circle, an exhibition about L.A.'s African American Art scene in the late 1960s and early 70s.  Peter is the author of the book A Letter from Japan: The Photographs of John Swope.  She has also contributed essays to other books, such as "California Welcomes the World: The International Expositions 1893-1939" and "The Selling of a State" in Reading California: Art, Image, and Identity, 1900-2000.