Dr. Stanley B Burns

Stanley B. Burns, MD, FACS, a practicing New York City ophthalmic surgeon, is also an internationally distinguished photo-historian, author, lecturer, curator, and collector. He has written 17 award-winning photohistory books and hundreds of articles, curated dozens of exhibitions, and collected 800,000 images, including the most comprehensive compilation of early hand-colored photography. In 1995, he published Forgotten Marriage: The Painted Tintype and the Decorative Frame, an exposé on the...See more

Stanley B. Burns, MD, FACS, a practicing New York City ophthalmic surgeon, is also an internationally distinguished photo-historian, author, lecturer, curator, and collector. He has written 17 award-winning photohistory books and hundreds of articles, curated dozens of exhibitions, and collected 800,000 images, including the most comprehensive compilation of early hand-colored photography. In 1995, he published Forgotten Marriage: The Painted Tintype and the Decorative Frame, an exposé on the art of painting photographs that explored the close relationship that hand-colored photographs have to paintings. In 2006, he penned Geisha: A Photographic History 1872-1912, documenting the painted photographs of Japan, concentrating on the portrayal of Geisha and their traditional arts and distinguishing them from the prostitute classes. See less