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Hugh Edwards (1903–1986) was an influential American curator of photography.Along with Alfred Stieglitz Edward Steichen and John Szarkowski Edwards was one of the handful of key curators who struggled to win the acceptance of fine art photography and documentary photography as art forms in the USA. Edwards was Curator of Prints & Drawings at the Art Institute of Chicago from 1959 until 1970 responsible for the significant collection of photographs there.