Peter Galassi
Peter Galassi (born 1951) is an American writer, curator, and art historian working in the field of photography.[1][2]
Peter Galassi | |
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Born | 1951 Washington, D.C. |
Nationality | American |
Education | B.A. – Harvard College Ph.D. – Columbia University |
Occupation | Curator |
Education
Galassi holds a B.A. in Visual and Environmental Studies from Harvard College (1972) and a Ph.D. in Art History and Archaeology from Columbia University (1986).[3]
Life and work
Galassi was Chief Curator of Photography at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) from 1991 to 2011. He started his career at MoMA as a Curatorial Intern (1974–1975), Associate Curator (1981–1986), and Curator (1986–1991) working with photography curator John Szarkowski.[4][5]
Exhibitions curated by Galassi
At Museum of Modern Art, New York
- 1975: Picture Puzzles: Photographs by Man Ray, Frederick Sommer, Clarence John Laughlin, and Robert Cumming.
- 1981: Before Photography: Painting and the Invention of Photography.
- 1986: Rosalind Solomon: Ritual.[6]
- 1987: Henri Cartier-Bresson: The Early Work.[7]
- 1988: Nicholas Nixon: Pictures of People.[8]
- 1988: New Photography 4: Patrick Faigenbaum, Reagan Louie, and Michael Schmidt.
- 1989: Walker Evans: American Photographs.[9]
- 1991: Projects: Stuart Klipper, On Antarctica 1989.[10]
- 1991: Pleasures and Terrors of Domestic Comfort.[11]
- 1992: More Than One Photography: Works since 1980 from the Collection.
- 1992: The Photographs of Lucas Samaras: Selections from a Recent Gift.[12]
- 1992: New Photography 8: Dieter Appelt, Ellen Brooks, Darrel Ellis, Dennis Farber, Robert Flynt, Mary Miss, Gundula Schulze, Toshio Shibata.
- 1993: Recent Acquisitions: Photography.
- 1993: Philip-Lorca diCorcia: Strangers.[13]
- 1993: William Wegman's Cinderella.[14]
- 1994: Gesture and Pose: Twentieth-Century Photographs from the Collection.[15]
- 1994: Lee Friedlander: Letters from the People.[16]
- 1995: Recent Acquisitions: Photography.
- 1995: Helen Chadwick: Bad Blooms.[17]
- 1995: American Photography 1890-1965 from The Museum of Modern Art, New York.
- 1996: Michael Schmidt: U-NI-TY. Co-organized with Thomas Weski, Sprengel Museum Hannover, Germany.[18]
- 1996: Roy DeCarava: A Retrospective.[19]
- 1996: In the Light of Italy: Corot and Early Open-Air Painting. Co-organized with Philip Conisbee, Sarah Faunce, and Jeremy Strick. National Gallery of Art, Washington.
- 1996: Pictures of the Times: A Century of Photography from The New York Times. Co-organized with Susan Kismaric.[20][21]
- 1997: Recent Acquisitions: American Photography.
- 1997: From the Grace M. Mayer Collection.
- 1997: Cindy Sherman: The Complete Untitled Film Stills[22]
- 1998: Garry Winogrand: Selections from a Major Acquisition.[23]
- 1998: Aleksandr Rodchenko. Co-organized with Magdalena Dabrowski and Leah Dickerman.[24]
- 2000: Graphic-Photographic. Co-organized with Christopher Mount.
- 2000: Ideal Motif: Stieglitz, Weston, Adams, and Callahan.
- 2000: The Rhetoric of Persuasion. Co-organized with Wendy Weitman.
- 2000: Seeing Double.
- 2001: Walker Evans & Company.
- 2001: Andreas Gursky.[25]
- 2002: Life of the City. Co-organized with the curatorial staff of the Department of Photography and the organizers of Here is New York.
- 2005: Friedlander.[26]
- 2006: Landscape: Recent Acquisitions. Co-organized with the curatorial staff of the Department of Photography.
- 2007: Barry Frydlender: Place and Time.[27]
- 2007: Jeff Wall.[28]
- 2008: Bernd and Hilla Becher: Landscape/Typology.
- 2010: Henri Cartier-Bresson: The Modern Century.[29]
At other institutions
- 2015: Robert Frank in America, Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Center for Visual Arts, Stanford, CA.[30]
- 2015: In The Studio: Photographs, Gagosian Gallery, New York City.[31]
- 2015: Land Meets Water: European and American Photography from 1860 to the Present, Artipelag, Gustavsberg, Sweden.[32]
- 2018: Brassaï, Fundación MAPFRE Casa Garriga Nogués, Barcelona, Spain.[33]
Publications
Books and Exhibition Catalogues
- ‘’Before Photography: Painting and the Invention of Photography’’. New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1981. ISBN 978-0870702549.
- Italian edition: ‘’Prima della fotografia: La pittura e l'invenzione della fotografia’’. Turin: Bollati Boringhieri Editori, 1989.
- Henri Cartier-Bresson: The Early Work. New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1987. ISBN 978-0870702624
- French edition: ‘’Henri Cartier-Bresson: Premières photos. De l'objectif hasardeux au hasard objectif’’. Paris: Arthaud, 1991. Trans. Pierre Leyris.
- German edition: ‘’Henri Cartier-Bresson: Die frühen Photographien’’. Munich: Schirmer/Mosel, 2007. Trans. Rudolf Hermstein and Martina Tichy.
- ’’Nicholas Nixon: Pictures of People’’. New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1988. ISBN 978-0870704376
- ’’Corot in Italy: Open-Air Painting and the Classical-Landscape Tradition’’. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1991.ISBN 978-0300049572
- French edition: ‘’Corot en Italie: La peinture de plein air et la tradition classique’’. Paris: Éditions Gallimard, 1991. Trans. Jeanne Bouniort.
- German edition: ‘’Corot in Italien: Freilichtmalerei und klassische Landschaftstradition’’. Munich: Hirmer Verlag, 1991. Trans. Annemarie Seling.
- Italian edition: ‘’Corot in Italia: La pittura di plein air e la tradizione del paesaggio classico’’. Turin: Bollati Boringhieri Editori, 1994. Trans. Anna Bertolino.
- ’’Pleasures and Terrors of Domestic Comfort’’. New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1991. ISBN 978-0810960978
- ’’American Photography 1890-1965 from The Museum of Modern Art’’. New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1995. ISBN 978-0870701405
- German edition: ‘’Amerikanische Photographie 1890-1965 aus der Sammlung desMuseum of Modern Art, New York’’. Munich: Schirmer/Mosel, 1995. Trans. Jörg Trobitius.
- French edition: ‘’Photographie américaine de 1890 à 1965 à travers la collection du Museum of Modern Art, New York’’. Paris: Centre Georges Pompidou, 1995. Trans. Jeanne Bouniort.
- Spanish edition: ‘’Fotografia americana 1890-1965 en The Museum of Modern Art, NewYork’’. Valencia: IVAM Centre Julio González, 1995.
- ’’Philip-Lorca diCorcia (Contemporaries: A Photography Series).’’ New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1995. ISBN 978-0870701450
- Roy DeCarava: A Retrospective. New York: Museum of Modern Art, 1996. ISBN 978-0870701269.
- ’’Pictures of the Times: A Century of Photography from The New York Times’’. New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1996. Edited by Peter Galassi and Susan Kismaric. ISBN 978-0870701153
- ’’Aleksandr Rodchenko’’. New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1998. By Magdalena Dabrowski, Leah Dickerman, and Peter Galassi. ISBN 978-0810961876
- ’’Making Choices: 1929, 1939, 1948, 1955I’’. New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 2000. ISBN 978-0870700293 By Peter Galassi, Robert Storr, and Anne Umland.
- ’’Walker Evans & Company’’. New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 2000. ISBN 978-0870700323.
- ’’Andreas Gursky’’. New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 2001. ASIN B019NE8L7M.
- German edition: Andreas Gursky. Ostfildern-Ruit: Hatje Cantz Verlag, 2001. Trans. Hinrich von Haaren.
- Spanish edition of text: Madrid: Museo Nacional Centro De Arte Reina Sofia, 2001. Trans. María Luisa Balseiro.
- Henri Cartier-Bresson: The Man, the Image and the World. London: Thames & Hudson Ltd, 2003. ASIN B01K0TJN8K.
- Friedlander. New York: Museum of Modern Art, 2005. ISBN 0-87070-343-9. With an essay by Richard Benson.
- Barry Frydlender: Place and Time. New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 2007. ISBN 978-0870707186.
- Jeff Wall. New York: Museum of Modern Art; San Francisco: San Francisco Museum of Modern Art 2007. ISBN 978-0870707070. With an interview with Jeff Wall by James Rondeau.
- Henri Cartier-Bresson: The Modern Century. New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 2010. ISBN 978-0870707780.
- French edititon: Henri Cartier-Bresson: un siècle modern. Paris: Éditions Hazan, 2010. Trans. Jean-François Allain.
- German edition: Henri Cartier-Bresson: sein 20. Munich: Schirmer/Mosel, 2010. Trans. Ursula Wulfekamp and Matthias Wolf.
- Italian edition: Henri Cartier-Bresson: il secolo modern. Rome:Contrasto, 2010. Trans. Maria Baiocchi.
- Portuguese (Brazilian) edition: Henri Cartier-Bresson:o século moderno. São Paolo: Cosac Naify, 2010. Trans. Cid Knipel.
- Spanish edition: Henri Cartier-Bresson: el siglo modern. Madrid: La Fabrica Editorial, 2010. Trans. Miguel Marqués,Tamara Gil Somoza, and Elena Sanjosé Román.
- Richard Benson: North South East West. New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 2011. ISBN 978-0870708169.
- Ansel Adams in Yosemite Valley: Celebrating the Park at 150. New York: Little, Brown and Company, 2014. ISBN 978-0316323406.
- Robert Frank in America. Göttingen: Steidl, Palo Alto: Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University, 2014. ISBN 978-3869307350.
- French edition: Robert Frank en amérique. Göttingen: Steidl, 2015. Trans. Juliette Lê.
- Spanish edition: Robert Frank en américa. Madrid: La Fábrica, 2016.
- In the Studio: Photographs. New York: Phaidon, New York: Gagosian Gallery, 2015.ISBN 978-0714870267
- Brassaï. Madrid: Fundación MAPFRE, 2018. ISBN 978-8498446449. With contributions by Stuart Alexander and Atonio Muñoz Molina.
Books with contributions by Galassi
- "Caillebotte's Method." In Gustave Caillebotte: A Retrospective Exhibition. Houston: The Museum of Fine Arts, 1976, pp. 192-206. ASIN B000XTX2AI
- Reprinted with revisions in Gustave Caillebotte, by Kirk Varnedoe. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1987, pp. 27-40.
- French edition: Gustave Caillebotte. Paris: Editions Adam Biro, 1988, pp. 27-40.
- "Mark Klett: Present and Past in the American West." In Mark Klett, Traces of Eden: Travels in the Desert Southwest. Boston: David R. Godine, 1986, n.p. ASIN B01FJ070IA
- "A Note on the Fiftieth-Anniversary Edition." In Walker Evans, American Photographs. Fiftieth-Anniversary Edition. New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1988, pp. 200-02. ISBN 978-0870702389
- "La Photographie et l'inertie de la théorie artistique." In Les Multiples inventions de la photographie, by Pierre Bonhomme. Paris: Mission du Patrimonie photographique, 1989, pp. 126-32. ASIN B008J23256
- "The Nineteenth Century: Valenciennes to Corot." In Claude to Corot: The Development of Landscape Painting in France, by Alan Wintermute. New York: Colnaghi, Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1990, pp. 233-49. ISBN 978-0295970868
- "Postmodernism and Photography." In 1990 Photography Today Report. Tokyo: Tokyo Metropolitan Culture Foundation, 1991, pp. 65-66. Text in English and Japanese.
- "A Tribute to J.A. Gere." In In the Light of Italy: Corot and Early Open-Air Painting. Washington, D.C.: National Gallery of Art, New Haven: Yale University Press, 1996, pp. 23-27. ISBN 978-0300067941
- "Before Corot". In, Corot, un artiste et son temps. Actes des colloques organisés au musée du Louvre par le Service culturel les 1er et 2 mars à Paris et par l’Académie deFrance à Rome, villa Médicis, le 9 mars 1996 à Rome. by Chiara Stefani, Vincent Pomarède, and Gérard de Wallens. Paris: Klincksieck, 1998, pp. 397-422. ISBN 978-2252032282
- "Conserving Photography and Preserving the Vitality of our Culture". In Miguel Angel Corzo, Mortality Immortality?: The Legacy of 20th-Century Art. Los Angeles: The Getty Conservation Institute, 1999, pp. 81–84.ISBN 978-0892365289
- Untitled afterword. In Nicholas Nixon, The Brown Sisters. New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1999, n.p. ISBN 978-0870700422
- "Natura Pictrix: Un entretien de Vik Muniz avec Peter Galassi". In Vik Muniz. Paris: Centre national de la Photographie, 1999, pp. 7–13. ISBN 978-2867541230
- Untitled introduction. In Lee Friedlander, Staglieno. Portland, Oregon: Nazraeli Press, 2002. ISBN 978-1590050392
- "And Everything in Between". In Philippe Arbaïzar, Henri Cartier-Bresson: The Man, the Image and the World: A Retrospective. London: Thames & Hudson, 2003. ISBN 978-0500286425
- “Rude and Crude: Cartier-Bresson at Julien Levy Gallery.” In Documentary & Anti-Graphic Photographs by Cartier-Bresson, Walker Evans & Alvarez Bravo, by Agnès Sire. Paris: Fondation Henri Cartier-Bresson, Göttingen: Steidl, 2004, pp. 100-102. ISBN 978-3865210722
- Bilingual edition; French: Rustre et Frustre: Cartier-Bresson à la Galerie Julien Levy, pp. 97–99.
- "Foreword and Acknowledgments". In Alexander N. Lavrentiev, Experiments for the Future: Diaries, Essays, Letters, and Other Writings. New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 2005, pp. 8-9. ISBN 978-0870705465
- "Introduction". In Mount St. Helens: Photographs by Frank Gohlke. New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 2005, pp. 8–9 ISBN 978-0870703461
- "A Tribute to Italo Zannier". In Fotologie: Scritti in onore di Italo Zannier, by Nico Stringa.Padova: il Poligrafo, 2006, pp. 29-30. ISBN 978-8871155227
- Untitled afterword. In Nicholas Nixon, The Brown Sisters: Thirty-Three Years. New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 2007, n.p. ISBN 978-0870707193
- Spanish edition: Nicholas Nixon, Las hermanas Brown 1975-2007. Trans. Mercedes Rivas. Madrid: Fundación MAPFRE in association with The Museum of Modern Art, New York, n.p.
- "Preface". In Jeff Wall, Selected Essays and Interviews. New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 2007. p. 6. ISBN 978-0870707087
- "Introduction". In Mark Steinmetz, South Central. Portland, Orgeon: Nazraeli Press, 2008, p. 5. ISBN 1590051718
- "Walker Evans und die Kunst des Faktischen". In Ortrud Westheider and Michael Philipp, New York Photography 1890-1950: Von Stieglitz bis Man Ray, by . München: Hirmer Verlag, Hamburg: Bucerius Kunst Forum, 2012, pp. 42–51. ISBN 978-3777451114
- "'Like an actor on a screen, watching himself': An email conversation between Thomas Demand and Peter Galassi". In Susan van Wyk, Thomas Demand. Melbourne: National Gallery of Victoria International, 2012, pp. 72–74. ISBN 978-0724103669
- Untitled essay. In Nicholas Nixon, Close Far. Göttingen: Steidl, 2013, n.p. ISBN 978-3869305363, Barral, 2013, n.p.
- “William Wegman Discovers Photography.” In Eurkea: William Wegman Photographs 1970-1975. New York: Craig F. Starr Gallery, 2013. ISBN 978-0989459020
- "I libri di Gianni Berengo Gardin". In Gianni Berengo Gardin, Il libro dei libri, by Bruno Carbone. Rome: Contrasto, 2014, pp. 7–13. ISBN 978-8869654442
- "A Fixed Point / En fast punkt". In Irving Penn: Timeless Moments. Stockholm: Åmells, 2014, pp. 7–9 (English) and 11–13 (Swedish). ISBN 9789197784894
- "I Marziani di Mantegazza / Mantegazza’s Martians". In Jacoppo Moggi Cecchi and Roscoe Stanyon, Il Museo di Storia Naturale dell’Università degli Studi di Firenze, vol. V, Le Collezioni antropologiche ed etnologiche. Firenze: University Press, 2014, pp. 224–25. Italian and English. ISBN 978-8866556152
- "Les Anonymes de Pierre de Fenoÿl, un nouveau regard". In Virginie Chardin, Pierre de Fenoÿl: une géographie imaginaire. Paris: Éditions Xavier Barral, 2015, pp. 224–29. ISBN 978-2365110730
- "Surrendering to the Picture". In Lee Friedlander & Pierre Bonnard: Photographs & Drawings, Göttingen: Steidl, New York: Pace/MacGill Gallery, Cologne: Galerie Thomas Zander, 2015, pp. 6–11. ISBN 978-3958290884
- "La rupture esthétique d’Eugène Atget". In Les Silences d’Atget: Une anthologie de texts, by Luce Lebart. Paris: Éditions Textuel, 2016, pp. 233–36. ISBN 978-2845975453
- "Faire collection: une enquête". In Clément Chéroux and Karolina Ziebinska-Lewandowska, The Pencil of Culture: 10 ans d’acquisitions de photographies au Centre Pompidou. Paris: Centre Pompidou and Filigranes Éditions, 2016, pp. 146–76. ISBN 978-2350464039
- "Afterword". In Tina Barney. New York: Rizzoli, 2017, pp. 218–26. ISBN 978-0847860364
- "Afterword". In Lee Friedlander. The American Monument. New York: Eakins Press Foundation, 2017, n.p. ISBN 978-0871300720
- Untitled essay. In Sheron Rupp, Taken from Memory. Berlin: Kehrer Heidelberg, 2019, p. 105. ISBN 978-3868288926
Awards
- 1988: Infinity Award, International Center of Photography Award for Writing in Photography, New York, (for Cartier-Bresson: The Early Work).[34]
- 1999: International Award of Photography, Centro di Ricerca e Archiviazione della Fotografia, Spilembergo, Italy.[35]
- 2010: Lucie Awards – Exhibition of the Year: Henri Cartier-Bresson: The Modern Century.[36]
- 2012: Guggenheim Fellowship.[37]
References
- Roberta Smith, Peter Galassi Is Modern's Photo Director, New York Times, October 12, 1991
- "NEW DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY AT MOMA". October 21, 1991 – via Christian Science Monitor.
- Peter Galassi biography, The Museum of Modern Art.
- "John Simon Guggenheim Foundation | Peter Galassi".
- David S. Spivak, Former MoMA Curator Peter Galassi, Medium, July 6, 2016.
- "Charles Hagen on Rosalind Solomon". www.artforum.com.
- https://www.moma.org/documents/moma_press-release_327470.pdf
- https://www.moma.org/documents/moma_press-release_327512.pdf
- "Eric Marth - Printing American Photographs - Walker Evans". www.ahornmagazine.com.
- Klipper, Stuart, "Projects 26", The Museum of Modern Art, New York, February 1-March 19, 1991.
- "PHOTOGRAPHY IN BRIEF : PLEASURES AND TERRORS OF DOMESTIC COMFORT By Peter Galassi (Museum of Modern Art/Abrams: : $24.95, paper; 127 pp.)". Los Angeles Times. December 6, 1992.
- "The Photographs of Lucas Samaras: Selections from a Recent Gift". The Museum of Modern Art.
- "PHILIP-LORCA diCORCIA: STRANGERS", Press release, The Museum of Museum Art, March 1993.
- "WILLIAM WEGMAN'S CINDERELLA", Press release, The Museum of Modern Art, May 1993.
- Hagen, Charles (January 28, 1994). "Review/Photography; Gestures as a Vocabulary for Reading Personality" – via NYTimes.com.
- Hagen, Charles (August 5, 1994). "PHOTOGRAPHY REVIEW; A Master of the Frame: Intricate Compositions From Lee Friedlander" – via NYTimes.com.
- "OBITUARY:Helen Chadwick". The Independent. March 18, 1996.
- Hagen, Charles (January 26, 1996). "PHOTOGRAPHY REVIEW;Seeking the Meaning Of Being German Today" – via NYTimes.com.
- Kennedy, Randy (October 28, 2009). "Roy DeCarava, Harlem Insider Who Photographed Ordinary Life, Dies at 89" – via NYTimes.com.
- Goldberger, Paul, "Exhibitions Celebrate a Times Centennial", The New York Times, March 18, 1996.
- Sante, Luc (June 26, 1996). "At the Modern, the 20th Century in All Its Shades of Gray" – via NYTimes.com.
- Smith, Roberta (June 27, 1997). "Film Starlet Cliches, Genuine and Artificial at the Same Time" – via NYTimes.com.
- Loke, Margarett (February 20, 1998). "200 Vintage Photographs Acquired by the Modern" – via NYTimes.com.
- "Power to the People - Nymag". New York Magazine.
- "artnet.com Magazine Reviews - Thirsty for Gursky". www.artnet.com.
- "Lee Friedlander at MoMA - The Museum of Modern Art". www.artforum.com.
- Camhi, Leslie (May 13, 2007). "Fragments of Israel, Assembled Into a Whole" – via NYTimes.com.
- Lipsky-Karasz, Elisa. "Jeff Wall's Unique Photographic Vision". WSJ.
- Cotter, Holland (April 8, 2010). "'Henri Cartier-Bresson,' a Retrospective at MoMA" – via NYTimes.com.
- Huang, Eric (November 19, 2014). "A chat with Peter Galassi, former curator at MOMA".
- "In the Studio: Photographs: Curated by Peter Galassi, 980 Madison Avenue, New York, February 17–April 18, 2015". Gagosian. April 12, 2018.
- "Sweden: Land Meets Water – European and American Photography from 1860 to the Present". June 5, 2015.
- Juan Peces, Peter Galassi Is Modern's Photo Director, British Journal of Photography, February 12, 2018
- "1988 Infinity Award: Writing". International Center of Photography. February 23, 2016.
- "Peter Galassi". www.craf-fvg.it.
- "The Lucie Awards | 2010 Lucie Awards".
- John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. Peter Galassi 2012. Photography Studies. Accessed 31 July 2019.
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