Peter galassi biography
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Peter galassi biography
Peter Galassi
American writer, curator, and art historian working in the field of photography
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]
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 curato