[3] While enrolled as a graduate student, Lord was awarded a Jane and Morgan Whitney Fellowship to continue research on his doctoral dissertation and participate in the activities of the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Department of Photographs.
[2] Since arriving at the museum, Lord has organized dozens of exhibitions on historic and contemporary photographs, prints, and drawings, working with artists such as Willie Birch, Edward Burtynsky,[7] Lee Friedlander,[8] Dawn DeDeaux, Vera Lutter,[9] and more.
In conjunction with these exhibitions, Lord organized and participated in a variety of programs, including interviewing Pulitzer Prize winning writer Tony Kushner about his work on the Steven Spielberg film Lincoln.
[17] In 2018, the photography department was promised a donation of 1,300 photographs from the collection of Tina Freeman by artists such as Dorothea Lange, Sally Mann, Irving Penn, and Alfred Stieglitz.
Primarily masterworks by contemporary photographers such as Thomas Ruff, Cindy Sherman, Lorna Simpson, and Hiroshi Sugimoto, the collection also includes some excellent examples of earlier twentieth-century photography by such artists as Brassaï, Bill Brandt, Man Ray, and many others.
“Russell Albright’s eye was incredibly discerning, a trait that is visible across his collection, be it in his selection of a rich modernist print from the 1930s or a powerful contemporary photograph” said Lord.