David Acton, Ph.D., is curator of photographs at the Raclin Murphy Museum of Art at the University of Notre Dame. He came to Notre Dame after nearly 30 years as curator of prints, drawings and photographs at the Worcester Art Museum in Massachusetts. He has organized over 100 museum exhibitions and is the author of scholarly books, catalogues and articles on works on paper, most recently the two-volume “A History of Photography at the University of Notre Dame.”