Bill Brandt & Henry Moore: Photography in Four Dimensions

Martina Droth is Deputy Director of Research, Exhibitions and Publications, and Curator of Sculpture at the Yale Center for British Art, New Haven. She is the Chair of the Association of Research Institutes in Art History and co-editor of the peer-reviewed online journal British Art Studies. Her research focuses on sculpture with an emphasis on interdisciplinary practice. Current and recent curatorial projects include: Bill Brandt | Henry Moore (The Hepworth, YCBA, and Sainsbury Centre, 2020—2021); Things of Beauty Growing: British Studio Pottery (YCBA and Fitzwilliam Museum, 2017—2018); Sculpture Victorious: Art in an Age of Invention, 1837-1901 (YCBA and Tate Britain, 2014—2015); and Caro: Close Up (YCBA, 2012). Prior to joining the Center, she was at the Henry Moore Institute where her exhibitions included Taking Shape: Finding Sculpture in the Decorative Arts (HMI and John Paul Getty Museum, 2008—2009) and Bronze: The Power of Life and Death (HMI, 2005). Her forthcoming projects include an exhibition of works by Hew Locke.

Paul Messier is the Chair of Yale’s Institute for the Preservation of Cultural Heritage and Pritzker Director of the IPCH Lens Media Lab. Established in 2015, the LML focuses on collection-scale analysis and interpretation of artist materials. This work is grounded by LML’s collection of historic photographic paper – assembled by Paul over decades, this archive is the largest of its kind in the world. He has published widely, holds two patents for cultural materials characterization, and recently directed an initiative to establish a department of photograph conservation at the State Hermitage Museum in Saint Petersburg, Russia. In 1999, his research exposed the largest authenticity scandal in the photography market. Paul is the 2017 recipient of the New England Beacon Award from the Griffin Museum of Photography and is the 2018 recipient of the Award for Distinction in Scholarship and Conservation jointly presented by the College Art Association and the American Institute for Conservation.