A. D. Coleman is an internationally known critic of photography and photo-based art, and a widely published commentator on new digital technologies. He has published 8 books and more than 2000 essays on photography and related subjects. Formerly a columnist for the Village Voice, the New York Times, and the New York Observer, Coleman has contributed to ARTnews, Art On Paper, Technology Review, Juliet Art Magazine (Italy), European Photography (Germany), La Fotografia (Spain), and Art Today (China). His work has been translated into 21 languages and published in 31 countries.
Coleman serves as executive director of two major websites, The Nearby Café (nearbycafe.com) and The Photography Criticism CyberArchive (photocriticism.com). His widely read internet newsletter on photography, "C: The Speed of Light," appears at photocritic.com. American Photo named Coleman one of "the 100 most important people in photography in 1998." In 2002 he received the Culture Prize of the German Photographic Society, the first critic of photography ever so honored. Since 2005, exhibitions that he has curated have opened at museums and galleries in Canada, China, Finland, Italy, Rumania, Slovakia, and the U.S.
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