Dr. Anthony Bannon

Anthony Bannon is the seventh director of George Eastman House, the International Museum of Photography and Film in Rochester, New York. Prior to his appointment in 1996, Mr. Bannon was Assistant Vice President of Cultural Affairs at the State University of New York College at Buffalo, the largest college in the State University System, and Director of its Burchfield Penney Art Center.

He has worked as a critic, filmmaker, and educator. His book, Photo Pictorialists of Buffalo, won the American Photographic Historical Society's merit award. His writing on deafness won the Gallaudet University Award. His book on the photographer Steve McCurry was recently published by Phaidon Press.