Carol Johnson

Freelance Curator / Curator of Photography

Carol Johnson worked in the Prints and Photographs Division at the Library of Congress for thirty-one years before retiring and moving to Colorado. She is currently the co-curator of the annual Eyes on Main Street exhibition held in Wilson, North Carolina. She also researches and blogs about photography at www.19thcenturycoloradophotographers.com. Johnson earned a BFA in photography from Massachusetts College of Art and an MLS in Library Science from the University of Maryland.

Johnson was a contributor to the book Eyes of a Nation: A Visual History of the United States. She was also co-author and exhibition co-curator of Framing the West: The Survey Photographs of Timothy H. O’Sullivan, which was exhibited at the Smithsonian’s American Art Museum. At the Library of Congress, she co-curated Down to Earth: Herblock and Photographers Observe the Environment and The Last Full Measure: Civil War Photographs from the Liljenquist Family Collection.