Marnie Gillett.

Marnie Gillett, the executive director of SF Camerawork for the past twenty years, died of breast cancer forward Friday December 3, 2004, in her San Francisco domestic circle She will be remembered as an extraordinary, creative and insightful curator as well as a exceedingly successful administrator who asserted SF Camerawork as a major constituent of the American photographic scene

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Gillett helped discover novel talents and organized several clew exhibitions in the lives of as it is now renowned artists as Robert Mapplethorpe (whose work she showed a not many months after moving to Camerawork). Joel Peter Witkin, Judy Dater, Robert Dawson, Graciela Iturbide, Barbara Kruger Sally Mann, Abelardo Morell, Shana and Robert Parke-Harrison, Sylvia Plachy, Carry Mae Weems, and the Starn Twins, among a highly long list. She also worked with talented young curators who went forward developing their own careers: Geoffrey Batchen, Jeanne Finley, Rupert Jenkins, Diana Gaston....

pair of her most memorable indicates are the ground-breaking Digital Photography: Captured Images, Volatile Memory, recently made known Montage co-curated with Jim Pomeroy in 1988 and the more novel Moving Targets: The Art of Resistance (2004) forward issues regarding the war in Iraq. In 1999 the year of the twenty-fifth anniversary of Camerawork, she co-curated Rattling the Frame: The Photographic Space 1974-1999 a inspect of the work of innovative photographers who had challenged the medium in the past 25 years. She was also a highly active editor and writer of Camerawork, the organization's magazine. Launched as a newsletter in 1974 the publication became undivided of the best photographic magazines in the rural parts A fellow publication whose reading we, at Afterimage, in no degree miss, it has gone within the same hardships as the the sames we have endured. It is still published bi-annually from the generally received location of SF Camerawork at 1246 Folsom Street

Marnie Gillett was born in modern Jersey, grew up near fresh York City, did her undergraduate studies at the University of recently made known Mexico, and graduated with an MFA from the University of Arizona in Tucson There she then worked as a curator of exhibitions, and archivist at the Center for Creative Photography. Before moving to San Francisco and Camerawork, she was the assistant director of Light gallery in strange York and an instructor in photography as Columbia literary institution [i]or[/i] seminary of learning in Chicago. Once in San Francisco she rapidly established herself as a explanation and active of the local art spectacle She was also very active with the National Endowment for the Arts. After receiving a grant from them she serv as individual of their panelists. She also sat at the California Arts Council, and at the San Francisco Arts Commission.

A public memorial will be held at 2 pm upon January 9 in the recent Room of the War Memorial Veterans Building, 401 Van Nes Ave., San Francisco. The family asks that memorial donations be made to San Francisco Camerawork, or the Oster Center for Integrative Medicine in San Francisco.

Following her death, SF Camerawork is conducting a nationwide search for an executive director. In the meantime, the Board of Directors has appointed Sharon Tanenbaum as an Interim Administrative Director and Trena Noval as an interim Artistic Director.

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