Ellen Fleurov

Ellen Fleurov is an American museum curator and photography historian.

Fleurov lives and works in Atlanta, Georgia and is the founder and President of "Ellen Fleurov & Associates LLC". The founding curator of the photography department at the High Museum of Art in Atlanta, Fleurov has curated more than 40 exhibitions. Many of Fleurov's exhibit have toured internationally and have been featured in publications such as The New York Times, and Art in America. In March of 1997 Ellen Dugan Fleurov was honored by the Georgia Commission on Women for "Georgia Women in the Visual Arts"

Works

• "This Sporting Life, 1878-1991" (High Museum of Art and University of Washington Press, 1992).
• "Ralph Gibson/Light Years: Recent Gifts from the Kuniansky Family Collection" (High Museum of Art, 1997).
• "Walker Evans, Simple Secrets: Photographs from the Collection of Marian and Benjamin A. Hill Collection" (High Museum of Art and Harry N. Abrams, New York, 1997).
• "Pictures from Home: Six African American Studio Photographers in the South, 1900-1950" (Tubman African American Museum, Macon, GA, 2005).
• "The South by Its Photographers" included many Southern artists, among them William Christenberry, Jack Spencer, Melissa Springer and Thomas Tulis among others. This exhibition traveled from the Birmingham Museum of Art to Columbia Museum of Art in Columbia, South Carolina and the Louisiana Center for Arts and Sciences Baton Rouge, Louisiana. The exhibition was also made into a book by Susan Sipple Elliott, with an introduction by John E. Schloder, "The South By Its Photographers". - ISBN 0-87805-954-7
• Fleurov authored "Walker Evans Simple Secrets: Photographs from the Collection of Marian and Benjamin A. Hill". - ISBN 1080963620
• Her Olympic exhibition "Picturing the South" while curator of photography at the High Museum of Art in Atlanta, Georgia included notable artists mostly from the South but also included Ed Ruscha. The exhibit was also made into a book, "Picturing the South, 1860 to the Present" (Chronicle Books, San Francisco, 1996).

External links

• --Georgia's Women's History Month