James L. Enyeart

James L. Enyeart ( born January 13, 1943) is an American photographer, scientists, and museum director. From 1989 to 1995 Enyeart served as director of the renowned George Eastman House in Rochester, New York. Previously, he was from 1977 to 1989 director of the Center for Creative Photography at the University of Arizona. Enyeart received a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship and several other awards, including the Josef Sudek Medal from the Czech Republic, the Achievement Award from the Photographic Society of Japan and the Obelisk Photokina, Cologne. Enyeart is also the author of numerous books. His photographs are in the collections of the George Eastman House, the Smithsonian American Museum of Art, the Bibliothèque Nationale in Paris, the Center for Creative Photography, the Sheldon Memorial Gallery, the Kiasato Museum of Photography in Japan, the Irish Museum of Modern Art and other museums and private collections contain.