Huntsville resident Frances Osborn Robb has spent twenty-five years researching Alabama photographers and photographs while serving as a consultant on the state’s cultural history and historic photography for museums, archives, and libraries. She has curated or advised on many exhibitions, including Made in Alabama: A State Legacy and the award-winning exhibition In View of Home: Alabama Landscape Photographs. In her search for information and images, she has visited every county in Alabama and roamed as far as Maine and California to study photographs in institutional repositories and family collections.
Frances Osborn Robb’s Featured Articles:
- Behind the Image: A Modern Woman (Issue 144)
- Behind the Image: What’s in a Name? (Issue 143)
- Behind the Image: A Crazy Quilt (Issue 142)
- Larger than Life: Margaret Bourke-White’s Photomurals of the Chattahoochee Valley (Issue 140)
- Behind the Image: Decorum in the Studio and Tidy in Town (Issue 140)
- Behind the Image: Stamps and a King’s Photo Turn Into a Period Interior (Issue 139)
- Behind the Image: Color My Garden Black and White (Issue 138)
- Behind the Image: A Visit with Abraham Lincoln (Issue 137)
- Behind the Image: A Tale of a Traveling Man (Issue 136)
- Behind the Image: The Renaissance Men from Tuskegee (Issue 135)
- Behind the Image: The Nutcracker Ballet, 1950s Style (Issue 133)
- Behind the Image: The Wedding Dress that Wasn’t (Issue 132)
- Behind the Image: A Portrait and a Coverlet (Issue 131)
- Behind the Image: Kinship Connections (Issue 130)
- Behind the Image: A Picturesque Gatehouse Holds the Clue (Issue 129)
- Behind the Image: A Very Early Photograph on Paper (Issue 128)
- Behind the Image: Tale Spinning (Issue 127)
- Behind the Image: Looking Beneath the Surface: Researching Objects in Photos (Issue 126)
- Alabama Lifestyles and Landscapes: Photography of the Geological Survey (Issue 77)
- Eugene Allen Smith and the Geological Survey of Alabama (Issue 33)
