Elaine Mayes

Mayes’ photographs have been published and exhibited widely and are in the collections of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; The Museum of Modern Art, New York; and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. She is the recipient of three National Endowment for the Arts grants and a Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship. Mayes taught for over thirty years and is Professor Emerita at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts, where she was Chair of the Photography Department from 1997 until her retirement in 2001.