Corey Keller is a historian of photography and independent curator based in Oakland, CA. From 2003 to 2021, she served as curator of photography at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) where her critically acclaimed exhibitions included monographic surveys on Dawoud Bey, John Beasley Greene, Henry Wessel, and Francesca Woodman as well as the thematic shows About Time: Photography in a Moment of Change and Brought to Light: Photography and Invisibility, 1840-1900. Recent writings include essays on Eliza Withington, Susan Meiselas, Ralph Eugene Meatyard, and Eadweard Muybridge, Etienne-Jules Marey, and Clare Strand. A specialist in nineteenth-century photography, she is particularly interested in drawing connections between the concerns that shaped conceptions of the medium in its earliest days and their manifestations in contemporary practice. She has lectured and taught widely, and is currently adjunct professor in the photography program at California College of the Arts (CCA).