ANTHONY BANNON

Director, George Eastman House

Presentation: International Peace Corps Photography Exhibition

Anthony Bannon is the seventh director of George Eastman House, the International Museum of Photography and Film. Prior to his appointment in 1996, Bannon was Assistant Vice President of Cultural Affairs at the State University of New York College at Buffalo, the largest college in the State University System, and Director of its Burchfield Penney Art Center.

He has worked as a critic, filmmaker, and educator. His book, Photo Pictorialists of Buffalo, won the American Photographic Historical Society’s merit award. His writing on deafness won the Gallaudet University Award. His book on the photographer Steve McCurry was recently published by Phaidon Press.

Bannon has served on the Executive Committee of the New York State Council for the Humanities, and the boards of High Falls Film Festival, Santa Fe Center for Photography, and the Rochester School for the Deaf. He has served on art councils in New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Michigan.

Bannon earned a Bachelor of Science degree from St. Bonaventure University, his Master’s degree in Media Studies, and his Ph.D. in the area of Cultural Studies, both from the English Department at the State University of New York at Buffalo.