Philip Brookman is a curator, photographer, filmmaker, and writer. He is Chief Curator and Head of Research at the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. Brookman’s books, essays, and documentaries are about issues of modern photography, media, culture, family, and visual arts. Brookman has organized major exhibitions with photographers Robert Frank, Jim Goldberg, Sally Mann, and Gordon Parks, among others. He is the author of Helios: Eadweard Muybridge in a Time of Change.