Maurice Berger(1956-2020)

Maurice Berger is a cultural historian whose work explores the relationship between social and cultural issues and American film, television, art, and material culture. He is Research Professor and Chief Curator at the Center for Art, Design and Visual Culture, University of Maryland Baltimore County. He was also formerly Curator of the National Jewish Archive of Broadcasting at The Jewish Museum in New York. Berger's essay series, Race Stories, "a continuing exploration of the relationship of race to photographic portrayals of race," appears monthly on the ''Lens Blog'' of the New York Times. Berger has curated more than 30 exhibitions and is the author of eleven books, including, "Revolution of the Eye: Modern Art and the Birth of American Television" (Yale 2015), "For All the World to See: Visual Culture and the Struggle for Civil Rights" (Yale, 2010), "Masterworks of The Jewish Museum" (Yale, 2004), and "White Lies: Race and the Myths of Whiteness (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1999)." Berger's curatorial honors include "Exhibition of the Year" and "Best Exhibition in a University Museum" from the Association of Art Museum Curators and "Best Thematic Exhibition in New York" from the International Association of Art Critics, American Section. His short film, "Threshold," premiered at the Whitney Biennial in New York in 2012. He has appeared in a number of film and television documentaries and feature news segments, including "The Marion Stokes Project" (Dir. Matt Wolf, 2016), "Revolution of the Eye," (Prod. Lisa Petrillo, CBS-4 Miami, October 2015), "Blacking Up: Hip Hop's Remix of Race and Identity" (Dir. Robert Clift, 2010), and "For All the World to See," (Prod. Cara Cosentino, WNET Sunday Arts, August 2010). For his work on the "For All the World to See" segment of Sunday Arts, Berger received a 2011 Emmy Award nomination from the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, New York chapter.