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Peter Galassi

Peter Johnston Galassi (born April 18, 1951) is an American writer, curator, and art historian working in the field of photography.[1][2] His principal fields are photography and nineteenth-century French art.[3]

Peter Galassi
Born (1955-04-18) April 18, 1955 (age 67)
Washington, D.C.
NationalityAmerican
EducationPhillips Exeter Academy
B.A.Harvard College
Ph.D.Columbia University
OccupationCurator
RelativesBarbara M. White (aunt)

Education

Galassi graduated from Phillips Exeter Academy in 1968.[4] 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).[5]

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.[6][7]

After first organizing a Henri Cartier-Bresson exhibit in 1987 as a photography curator at MoMA, he organized a larger Cartier-Bresson exhibit as chief curator of MoMA in 2010.[8] He was replaced as chief curator of photography at MoMA in December 2012 by Quentin Bajac, after retiring in 2011.[9]

He curated a large Barcelona exhibit of Gyula Halász in 2018, with the British Journal of Photography saying "exhibition could be considered to be Galassi’s biggest curatorial endeavour so far since he retired from MoMA."[10]

With "PROOF" in February 2020, he was guest curator on a collection of works from the collection of Mark Schwartz and Bettina Katz.[11] The exhibit was published in the book PROOF: Photography in the Era of the Contact Sheet from the Collection of Mark Schwartz + Bettina Katz in 2020, written by Galassi.[12]

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.[13]
  • 1987: Henri Cartier-Bresson: The Early Work.[14]
  • 1988: Nicholas Nixon: Pictures of People.[15]
  • 1988: New Photography 4: Patrick Faigenbaum, Reagan Louie, and Michael Schmidt.
  • 1989: Walker Evans: American Photographs.[16]
  • 1991: Projects: Stuart Klipper, On Antarctica 1989.[17]
  • 1991: Pleasures and Terrors of Domestic Comfort.[18]
  • 1992: More Than One Photography: Works since 1980 from the Collection.
  • 1992: The Photographs of Lucas Samaras: Selections from a Recent Gift.[19]
  • 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.[20]
  • 1993: William Wegman's Cinderella.[21]
  • 1994: Gesture and Pose: Twentieth-Century Photographs from the Collection.[22]
  • 1994: Lee Friedlander: Letters from the People.[23]
  • 1995: Recent Acquisitions: Photography.
  • 1995: Helen Chadwick: Bad Blooms.[24]
  • 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.[25]
  • 1996: Roy DeCarava: A Retrospective.[26]
  • 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.[27][28]
  • 1997: Recent Acquisitions: American Photography.
  • 1997: From the Grace M. Mayer Collection.
  • 1997: Cindy Sherman: The Complete Untitled Film Stills[29]
  • 1998: Garry Winogrand: Selections from a Major Acquisition.[30]
  • 1998: Aleksandr Rodchenko. Co-organized with Magdalena Dabrowski and Leah Dickerman.[31]
  • 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.[32]
  • 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.[33]
  • 2006: Landscape: Recent Acquisitions. Co-organized with the curatorial staff of the Department of Photography.
  • 2007: Barry Frydlender: Place and Time.[34]
  • 2007: Jeff Wall.[35]
  • 2008: Bernd and Hilla Becher: Landscape/Typology.
  • 2010: Henri Cartier-Bresson: The Modern Century.[36]

At other institutions

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, New York. 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

References

  1. ^ Roberta Smith, Peter Galassi Is Modern's Photo Director, New York Times, October 12, 1991
  2. ^ "NEW DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY AT MOMA". Christian Science Monitor. October 21, 1991.
  3. ^ Peter Galassi, John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, 2012, retrieved June 27, 2020
  4. ^ The Pean. Phillips Exeter Academy. 1968.
  5. ^ Peter Galassi biography, The Museum of Modern Art.
  6. ^ "John Simon Guggenheim Foundation | Peter Galassi".
  7. ^ David S. Spivak, Former MoMA Curator Peter Galassi, Medium, July 6, 2016.
  8. ^ Jobey, Liz (June 11, 2010), "Henri Cartier-Bresson: The Modern Century by Peter Galassi", The Guardian, retrieved June 27, 2020
  9. ^ Quentin Bajac replaces Peter Galassi, The Eye of Photography, December 25, 2012, retrieved June 27, 2020
  10. ^ Peces, Juan (February 12, 2018), The definitive Brassaï show, curated by ex-MoMA star Peter Galassi, British Journal of Photography, retrieved June 27, 2020
  11. ^ Meszoros, Mark (February 20, 2020), Outtakes star in Cleveland Museum of Art's 'PROOF: Photography in the Era of the Contact Sheet', News Herald, retrieved June 27, 2020
  12. ^ Galassi, Peter (April 19, 2020), A glimpse inside the darkroom—and into the strategies of renowned photographers, Yale University Press, retrieved June 27, 2020
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  21. ^ "WILLIAM WEGMAN'S CINDERELLA", Press release, The Museum of Modern Art, May 1993.
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Peter Johnston Galassi born April 18 1951 is an American writer curator and art historian working in the field of photography 1 2 His principal fields are photography and nineteenth century French art 3 Peter GalassiBorn 1955 04 18 April 18 1955 age 67 Washington D C NationalityAmericanEducationPhillips Exeter AcademyB A Harvard CollegePh D Columbia UniversityOccupationCuratorRelativesBarbara M White aunt Contents 1 Education 2 Life and work 3 Exhibitions curated by Galassi 3 1 At Museum of Modern Art New York 3 2 At other institutions 4 Publications 4 1 Books and exhibition catalogues 4 2 Books with contributions by Galassi 5 Awards 6 ReferencesEducation EditGalassi graduated from Phillips Exeter Academy in 1968 4 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 5 Life and work EditGalassi 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 6 7 After first organizing a Henri Cartier Bresson exhibit in 1987 as a photography curator at MoMA he organized a larger Cartier Bresson exhibit as chief curator of MoMA in 2010 8 He was replaced as chief curator of photography at MoMA in December 2012 by Quentin Bajac after retiring in 2011 9 He curated a large Barcelona exhibit of Gyula Halasz in 2018 with the British Journal of Photography saying exhibition could be considered to be Galassi s biggest curatorial endeavour so far since he retired from MoMA 10 With PROOF in February 2020 he was guest curator on a collection of works from the collection of Mark Schwartz and Bettina Katz 11 The exhibit was published in the book PROOF Photography in the Era of the Contact Sheet from the Collection of Mark Schwartz Bettina Katz in 2020 written by Galassi 12 Exhibitions curated by Galassi EditAt Museum of Modern Art New York Edit 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 13 1987 Henri Cartier Bresson The Early Work 14 1988 Nicholas Nixon Pictures of People 15 1988 New Photography 4 Patrick Faigenbaum Reagan Louie and Michael Schmidt 1989 Walker Evans American Photographs 16 1991 Projects Stuart Klipper On Antarctica 1989 17 1991 Pleasures and Terrors of Domestic Comfort 18 1992 More Than One Photography Works since 1980 from the Collection 1992 The Photographs of Lucas Samaras Selections from a Recent Gift 19 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 20 1993 William Wegman s Cinderella 21 1994 Gesture and Pose Twentieth Century Photographs from the Collection 22 1994 Lee Friedlander Letters from the People 23 1995 Recent Acquisitions Photography 1995 Helen Chadwick Bad Blooms 24 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 25 1996 Roy DeCarava A Retrospective 26 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 27 28 1997 Recent Acquisitions American Photography 1997 From the Grace M Mayer Collection 1997 Cindy Sherman The Complete Untitled Film Stills 29 1998 Garry Winogrand Selections from a Major Acquisition 30 1998 Aleksandr Rodchenko Co organized with Magdalena Dabrowski and Leah Dickerman 31 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 amp Company 2001 Andreas Gursky 32 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 33 2006 Landscape Recent Acquisitions Co organized with the curatorial staff of the Department of Photography 2007 Barry Frydlender Place and Time 34 2007 Jeff Wall 35 2008 Bernd and Hilla Becher Landscape Typology 2010 Henri Cartier Bresson The Modern Century 36 At other institutions Edit 2015 Robert Frank in America Iris amp B Gerald Cantor Center for Visual Arts Stanford CA 37 2015 In The Studio Photographs Gagosian Gallery New York City 38 2015 Land Meets Water European and American Photography from 1860 to the Present Artipelag Gustavsberg Sweden 39 2018 Brassai Fundacion MAPFRE Casa Garriga Nogues Barcelona Spain 40 Publications EditBooks and exhibition catalogues Edit 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 Premieres photos De l objectif hasardeux au hasard objectif Paris Arthaud 1991 Trans Pierre Leyris German edition Henri Cartier Bresson Die fruhen 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 Editions 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 Jorg Trobitius French edition Photographie americaine de 1890 a 1965 a 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 New York Valencia IVAM Centre Julio Gonzalez 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 amp 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 Maria Luisa Balseiro Henri Cartier Bresson The Man the Image and the World London Thames amp 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 siecle modern Paris Editions Hazan 2010 Trans Jean Francois 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 seculo moderno Sao Paolo Cosac Naify 2010 Trans Cid Knipel Spanish edition Henri Cartier Bresson el siglo modern Madrid La Fabrica Editorial 2010 Trans Miguel Marques Tamara Gil Somoza and Elena Sanjose Roman 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 Gottingen Steidl Palo Alto Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University 2014 ISBN 978 3869307350 French edition Robert Frank en amerique Gottingen Steidl 2015 Trans Juliette Le Spanish edition Robert Frank en america Madrid La Fabrica 2016 In the Studio Photographs New York Phaidon New York Gagosian Gallery 2015 ISBN 978 0714870267 Brassai Madrid Fundacion MAPFRE 2018 ISBN 978 8498446449 With contributions by Stuart Alexander and Atonio Munoz Molina Books with contributions by Galassi Edit 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 theorie 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 organises au musee du Louvre par le Service culturel les 1er et 2 mars a Paris et par l Academie deFrance a Rome villa Medicis le 9 mars 1996 a Rome by Chiara Stefani Vincent Pomarede and Gerard 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 Arbaizar Henri Cartier Bresson The Man the Image and the World A Retrospective London Thames amp Hudson 2003 ISBN 978 0500286425 Rude and Crude Cartier Bresson at Julien Levy Gallery In Documentary amp Anti Graphic Photographs by Cartier Bresson Walker Evans amp Alvarez Bravo by Agnes Sire Paris Fondation Henri Cartier Bresson Gottingen Steidl 2004 pp 100 102 ISBN 978 3865210722 Bilingual edition French Rustre et Frustre Cartier Bresson a 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 Fundacion 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 Munchen 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 Gottingen 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 Amells 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 Universita 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 Fenoyl un nouveau regard In Virginie Chardin Pierre de Fenoyl une geographie imaginaire Paris Editions Xavier Barral 2015 pp 224 29 ISBN 978 2365110730 Surrendering to the Picture In Lee Friedlander amp Pierre Bonnard Photographs amp Drawings Gottingen Steidl New York Pace MacGill Gallery Cologne Galerie Thomas Zander 2015 pp 6 11 ISBN 978 3958290884 La rupture esthetique d Eugene Atget In Les Silences d Atget Une anthologie de texts by Luce Lebart Paris Editions Textuel 2016 pp 233 36 ISBN 978 2845975453 Faire collection une enquete In Clement Cheroux and Karolina Ziebinska Lewandowska The Pencil of Culture 10 ans d acquisitions de photographies au Centre Pompidou Paris Centre Pompidou and Filigranes Editions 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 3868288926Awards Edit1988 Infinity Award International Center of Photography Award for Writing in Photography New York for Cartier Bresson The Early Work 41 1999 International Award of Photography Centro di Ricerca e Archiviazione della Fotografia Spilembergo Italy 42 2010 Lucie Awards Exhibition of the Year Henri Cartier Bresson The Modern Century 43 2012 Guggenheim Fellowship 44 References Edit Roberta Smith Peter Galassi Is Modern s Photo Director New York Times October 12 1991 NEW DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY AT MOMA Christian Science Monitor October 21 1991 Peter Galassi John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation 2012 retrieved June 27 2020 The Pean Phillips Exeter Academy 1968 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 Jobey Liz June 11 2010 Henri Cartier Bresson The Modern Century by Peter Galassi The Guardian retrieved June 27 2020 Quentin Bajac replaces Peter Galassi The Eye of Photography December 25 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