NEW ORLEANS, LA.- Susan Taylor, the Montine McDaniel Freeman Director at the New Orleans Museum of Art (NOMA), announces the appointment of Russell Lord as the Freeman Family Curator of Photographs. Lord, a historian, curator, and educator who recently completed a Jane and Morgan Whitney fellowship in the Department of Photographs at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, will assume his new position on October 17, 2011. NOMA’s photography collection was first established in the 1970s at a time when many art museums were not yet collecting photography. Today NOMA’s extensive collection of over 8,500 works represents a sampling of some of the rarest examples and greatest achievements in photography from the 1840s to the present. Among the many artists represented are Berenice Abbott, Ansel Adams, Diane Arbus, Ilse Bing, William Eggleston, and Edward Steichen. In his new role, Lord will be responsible for