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'''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]].<ref name=":0" /> Her work focuses on [[Modern art|modern]] and [[contemporary art]] and [[visual culture]] of the [[Africa diaspora]], particularly the medium of [[photography]].<ref name=":0">{{cite web|title=Krista Thompson: Department of Art History - Northwestern University|url=http://www.arthistory.northwestern.edu/people/faculty/krista-thompson.html|website=www.arthistory.northwestern.edu|publisher=Northwestern University|accessdate=7 March 2017|language=en}}</ref>
Thompson earned her PhD in 2002 from [[Emory University]].<ref name=":0" />
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."<ref>{{cite web|title=2009 Prize Winner: Krista A. Thompson|url=https://www.high.org/en/Support/Driskell-Prize/Krista-A-Thompson|website=www.high.org|publisher=High Museum of Art|accessdate=8 March 2017}}</ref>
==Works==
* ''An Eye for the Tropics: Photography, Tourism, and Framing the Caribbean Picturesque'' ([[Duke University Press]], 2006)<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Fryar|first=Christienna|date=2009-01-01|title=An Eye for the Tropics: Tourism, Photography, and Framing the Caribbean Picturesque|url=https://www.questia.com/library/journal/1P3-2356449241/an-eye-for-the-tropics-tourism-photography-and|journal=The Journal of Caribbean History|volume=43|issue=1|pages=152|issn=0047-2263}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal|last=Eaton|first=N. J.|date=September 2017|title=Photobook Aesthetics and Shadows Beyond "An Eye for the Tropics"|journal=British Art Studies|issue=7|doi=10.17658/issn.2058-5462/issue-07/neaton|issn=2058-5462|doi-access=free}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal|last=Bennett|first=Ian Anthony Bethell|date=2010|title=Review of An Eye for the Tropics: Tourism, Photography, and Framing the Caribbean Picturesque|url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/27944588|journal=Caribbean Studies|volume=38|issue=1|pages=198–203|jstor=27944588|issn=0008-6533}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal|last=Francis|first=Jacqueline|date=2008|title=An Eye for the Tropics Tourism, Photography, and Framing the Caribbean (review)|url=https://muse.jhu.edu/article/422794/summary|journal=Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art|language=en|volume=22|issue=1|pages=204–205|doi=10.1215/10757163-22-23-1-204|s2cid=192575788|issn=2152-7792}}</ref>
* ''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)<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Rarey|first=Matthew Francis|date=2017-11-01|title=Shine: The Visual Economy of Light in African Diasporic Aesthetic Practice|url=https://doi.org/10.1162/AFAR_r_00383|journal=African Arts|volume=50|issue=4|pages=90–92|doi=10.1162/AFAR_r_00383|s2cid=57558608|issn=0001-9933}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal|last=Stephens|first=Sandra|date=2016-05-03|title=Krista Thompson, Shine: the visual economy of light in African diasporic aesthetic practice|url=https://doi.org/10.1080/08263663.2016.1180793|journal=Canadian Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Studies / Revue canadienne des études latino-américaines et caraïbes|volume=41|issue=2|pages=290–292|doi=10.1080/08263663.2016.1180793|s2cid=192938297|issn=0826-3663}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal|last=Phenix|first=Deinya|date=2017-01-02|title=Shine: the visual economy of light in African diasporic aesthetic practice by Krista A. Thompson|url=https://doi.org/10.1080/1472586X.2016.1262115|journal=Visual Studies|volume=32|issue=1|pages=81–82|doi=10.1080/1472586X.2016.1262115|s2cid=151822840|issn=1472-586X}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal|last=Berger|first=Eryn Snyder|date=2017|title=Shine: The Visual Economy of Light in African Diasporic Aesthetic Practice by Krista A. Thompson Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2015, 368 pp.|url=https://anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/aman.12872|journal=American Anthropologist|language=en|volume=119|issue=2|pages=364–366|doi=10.1111/aman.12872|issn=1548-1433}}</ref>
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