Krista Thompson is an art historian. She serves as Weinberg College Board of Visitors Professor and Professor in the Department of Art History at Northwestern University. ^[1] Her work focuses on modern and contemporary art and visual culture of the Africa diaspora, particularly the medium of photography. ^[1]

Thompson earned her PhD in 2002 from Emory University. ^[1]

In 2009 Thompson won the Driskell Prize from the High Museum of Art in Atlanta, recognizing "an original and important contribution to the field of African American art or art history." ^[2]

Works

• An Eye for the Tropics: Photography, Tourism, and Framing the Caribbean Picturesque ( Duke University Press, 2006) ^{[3] [4] [5] [6]}
• Developing Blackness: Studio Photographs of “Over the Hill” Nassau in the Independence Era ( National Art Gallery of the Bahamas, 2008)
• Shine: The Visual Economy of Light in African Diasporic Aesthetic Practice (Duke University Press, 2015) ^{[7] [8] [9] [10]}

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