Alan Newman is Chief of the Division of Imaging and Visual Services at The National Gallery of Art. He led the conversion of analog photography studios and labs at the Gallery into a full service digital imaging facility. He oversees the creation, quality control, storage, distribution,and preservation of all photographs and digital images and associated image metadata of the NGAs permanent collection. Mr. Newman also develops permissions policies and manages the rights to use images of works of art and other intellectual property of the NGA for publication, study, art collection documentation, educational programs, promotional activities, and marketing materials. He represents the Museum Computer Network on the boards of UPDIG (Universal Photographic Digital Imaging Guidelines) and PLUS.

Mr. Newman was Executive Director of the Imaging Department of The Art Institute of Chicago from 1985-2004 where he headed a department of full-time photographers, archivists, digital imaging, image rights, computer graphics and audio-visual specialists. He won three national first prizes for new media from the American Association of Museums. He directed major educational multimedia projects, an enterprise image database for museum collection management, a networked database for image licensing and numerous videos.

Mr. Newman served on the Illinois Century Network's (ICN) Statewide Advanced Engineering Taskforce (AET), which built the high speed network connecting all of the schools, museums, libraries and universities in Illinois.

Mr. Newman taught photography at a number of colleges and universities including the New School and Pratt Institute in New York, and exhibited his photographs widely. His work is represented in a number of museum collections, among them the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Smithsonian Museum of American Art.