Tim B. Wride (b. 1962, Playa del Rey, CA) joined the staff at the Norton Museum of Art in November of 2011.  Prior to his move to the Norton Museum, he was the founding director of a non-profit foundation that provided cash grants to artists and was a curator in the Department of Photographs at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) for 14 years. He has curated exhibitions and written extensively about the history of photography and the contemporary state of the medium.