Background
Gail Susan Buckland was born in 1948 in New York City, New York, United States.
Gail Susan Buckland was born in 1948 in New York City, New York, United States.
Buckland studied mainly at the University of Rochester, New York, where she obtained a bachelor's degree in history in 1970. She also took some courses at Columbia University in New York City (1967) and at Manchester University in England (1968-69). She spent the year 1970-71 at the London College of Printing studying photography.
Her work experience was quite varied. She taught photography at the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn (1977-78) and was both an adjunct assistant professor of photography at Cooper Union and a contributing editor to Portfolio (NYC). Previously she resided in Chicago, where she was both a faculty member at Columbia College (1975-77) and an assistant to the curator of photography at the Art Institute (1975-76). Prior to that, she spent four years in London, working as an exhibition organizer for the show "From Today Painting is Dead: The Beginnings of Photography" at the Victoria and Albert Museum (1971-72), as an archivist (1971-73) and a curator (1973-74) for the Royal Photographic Society of Great Britain and as an exhibition reviewer for the BBC Radio (1973-74).
Buckland is a member of the American Association of Picture Professionals, the Author's Guild and SPE.