Peter MacGill
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Peter MacGill is "one of the most important contemporary photographic gallerists". In 2005, he was listed as the 15th most important person in photography by American Photo magazine. He is president of Pace/MacGill Gallery, New York.
in 1974 and a MFA from the University of Arizona in 1977, where he was the first student to graduate from the MFA Photography program. MacGill began working in the photography world as a college intern at LIGHT Gallery in 1973. There he worked with Harold Jones and established contact with many of the artists the gallery represents today. In 2006 MacGill was the first recipient of the Harold Jones Distinguished Alumni Award at The University of Arizona.
MacGill is president of Pace/MacGill Gallery, New York, which was founded in 1983 by Arnold Glimcher, president
of the Pace Gallery
(formerly PaceWildenstein), Richard Solomon, president of Pace Editions, and Peter MacGill.
, John Szarkowski
, Andy Warhol
and Garry Winogrand
, as well as the work of Adou, Dieter Appelt
, Richard Benson
, David Byrne
, William Christenberry
, Chuck Close
, Jim Dine
, Robert Frank
, Jim Goldberg
, Emmet Gowin
, Lauren Greenfield
, Robert Heinecken, Hiro
, Mark Klett
, Josef Koudelka
, Jocelyn Lee, Duane Michals
, Diana Michener, Boris Mikhailov
, Richard Misrach
, Tod Papageorge
, Irving Penn
, Judith Joy Ross
, Paolo Roversi
, Michal Rovner, Lucas Samaras
, Fazal Sheikh
, Kiki Smith
, Alfred Stieglitz
, Frederick Sommer
, JoAnn Verburg, and William Wegman
.
Among the exhibitions curated by MacGill and held at Pace/MacGill Gallery are: Paul Strand: Exhibition Prints
from '291, 1984; Charles Sheeler: Vintage Photographs, 1985; Irving Penn: 48 Portraits from 1948, 1992; Alfred Stieglitz: Photographs from the Collection of Georgia O'Keeffe, 1993; Robert Frank: Flower is...Paris, 1949–1951, 1997; Laszlo Moholy-Nagy: Early Experiments, 1922–1932, 1997; Cropping and Picture Making, 1999; Man Ray: Important Vintage Photographs, 1999; Philip-Lorca diCorcia: Heads, 2001; David Byrne, 2003; Andy Warhol: Red Books, 2004; Frederick Sommer: Frederick Sommer at 100, 2005; Irving Penn: Underfoot, 2005; Emmet Gowin: Mariposas Nocturnas, Edith in Panama, 2005; Richard Misrach: Chronologies, 2006; Harry Callahan: Nature, 2007; Tod Papageorge: Passing Through Eden - Photographs of Central Park, 2007; Diane Arbus, Richard Avedon, August Sander, 2008; Josef Koudelka: Invasion 68 Prague, 2008; Judith Joy Ross: Protest the War, 2008; Richard Benson: Found Views and Chosen Colors, 2008. Although Pace/MacGill specializes in photography, the gallery has also exhibited non-photographic work since the mid-1990s.
MacGill negotiated the sales of the Thomas Walther Collection to the Museum of Modern Art, New York in 2001, the Manfred Heiting Collection to the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston in 2002, as well as a portion of the Paul Strand Archive in 2006. MacGill also negotiated the February 2008 sale of Irving Penn’s “Small Trades” series to the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles. Pace/MacGill has established many price records for individual works by Paul Strand, Charles Sheeler, Alfred Stieglitz, Andre Kertesz, Man Ray, Diane Arbus, and Paul Outerbridge. According to Sotheby’s, MacGill was the high bidder in 2006 for The Pond-Moonlight -- a 1904 photograph by Edward Steichen that shattered the record for the most expensive photograph ever sold at auction at more than $2.9 million.
About Pace/MacGill, MacGill states: "photography is the visual language of our time. . . We've always tried to show interesting photographs by the artists who approach the medium with a kind of intelligence, originality and passion . . . We seek to do our job as a gallery as well as our artists do theirs. They set the standard at the highest level possible and we try to follow suit.”
Life
Peter MacGill graduated with a BFA from Ohio Wesleyan UniversityOhio Wesleyan University
Ohio Wesleyan University is a private liberal arts college in Delaware, Ohio, United States. It was founded in 1842 by Methodist leaders and Central Ohio residents as a nonsectarian institution, and is a member of the Ohio Five — a consortium of Ohio liberal arts colleges...
in 1974 and a MFA from the University of Arizona in 1977, where he was the first student to graduate from the MFA Photography program. MacGill began working in the photography world as a college intern at LIGHT Gallery in 1973. There he worked with Harold Jones and established contact with many of the artists the gallery represents today. In 2006 MacGill was the first recipient of the Harold Jones Distinguished Alumni Award at The University of Arizona.
MacGill is president of Pace/MacGill Gallery, New York, which was founded in 1983 by Arnold Glimcher, president
of the Pace Gallery
Pace Gallery
The Pace Gallery is a New York City-based exhibition space. It was founded in 1960 in Boston by Arne Glimcher.-PaceWildenstein:From 1993 until April 1, 2010, the gallery became "PaceWildenstein," a joint business venture between the Pace Gallery and Wildenstein & Co....
(formerly PaceWildenstein), Richard Solomon, president of Pace Editions, and Peter MacGill.
Pace/MacGill gallery
Pace/MacGill represents the Estates of Harry Callahan, Robert RauschenbergRobert Rauschenberg
Robert Rauschenberg was an American artist who came to prominence in the 1950s transition from Abstract Expressionism to Pop Art. Rauschenberg is well-known for his "Combines" of the 1950s, in which non-traditional materials and objects were employed in innovative combinations...
, John Szarkowski
John Szarkowski
John Szarkowski was a photographer, curator, historian, and critic. From 1962 to 1991 Szarkowski was the Director of Photography at New York's Museum of Modern Art.-Early life and career:...
, Andy Warhol
Andy Warhol
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and Garry Winogrand
Garry Winogrand
Garry Winogrand was a street photographer known for his portrayal of America in the mid-20th century. John Szarkowski called him the central photographer of his generation....
, as well as the work of Adou, Dieter Appelt
Dieter Appelt
Dieter Appelt is a photographer whose work ranges from photography, film and video to performance art that typically involves sculpture of his own construction.-External links:...
, Richard Benson
Richard Benson
Richard M.A. Benson is an American photographer.He teaches at the Yale University and was dean of the Yale School of Art, from 1996 to 2006.-Awards:* 1978 Guggenheim Fellow* National Endowment for the Arts fellow...
, David Byrne
David Byrne
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, William Christenberry
William Christenberry
William Christenberry is a photographer, painter, and sculptor who works with personal and somewhat mythical themes growing out of his childhood experiences in Hale County, Alabama....
, Chuck Close
Chuck Close
Charles Thomas "Chuck" Close is an American painter and photographer who achieved fame as a photorealist, through his massive-scale portraits...
, Jim Dine
Jim Dine
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, Robert Frank
Robert Frank
Robert Frank , born in Zürich, Switzerland, is an important figure in American photography and film. His most notable work, the 1958 photobook titled The Americans, was influential, and earned Frank comparisons to a modern-day de Tocqueville for his fresh and skeptical outsider's view of American...
, Jim Goldberg
Jim Goldberg
Jim Goldberg is an American photographer and writer whose work reflects long-term, in-depth collaborations with neglected, ignored, or otherwise outside-the-mainstream populations.-Artistic career:...
, Emmet Gowin
Emmet Gowin
Emmet Gowin is an American photographer.After graduating from Richmond Professional Institute in 1965, Gowin attended the Rhode Island School of Design...
, Lauren Greenfield
Lauren Greenfield
Lauren Greenfield is an American artist, documentary photographer, and documentary filmmaker. She has published three monographs of her photographic work, directed four documentary films, exhibited her photographic prints in museums throughout the world, and had her work published in a variety of...
, Robert Heinecken, Hiro
Hiro
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, Mark Klett
Mark Klett
Mark Klett is an American photographer. Klett was born in Albany, NY. After getting a B.S. from St. Lawrence University in Geology in 1974 he worked as a photographer with the U.S. Geological Survey...
, Josef Koudelka
Josef Koudelka
Josef Koudelka is a Czech photographer.-Biography:Josef Koudelka was born in 1938 in Boskovice, Moravia, town of about 10,000 inhabitants. He began photographing his family and the surroundings with a 6 x 6 Bakelite camera...
, Jocelyn Lee, Duane Michals
Duane Michals
Duane Michals is an American photographer. Michals' work makes innovative use of photo-sequences, often incorporating text to examine emotion and philosophy.-Education and career:...
, Diana Michener, Boris Mikhailov
Boris Mikhailov
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, Richard Misrach
Richard Misrach
Richard Misrach is an American photographer known for his photographs of human intervention in landscapes. His works are represented in more than fifty major museum collections around the world....
, Tod Papageorge
Tod Papageorge
Tod Papageorge is an American art photographer whose career began in the New York City street photography movement of the 1960s.Papageorge started taking photographs in 1962 as an English literature major at the University of New Hampshire....
, Irving Penn
Irving Penn
Irving Penn was an American photographer known for his portraiture and fashion photography.-Early career:Irving Penn studied under Alexey Brodovitch at the Philadelphia Museum School of Industrial Art from which he was graduated in 1938. Penn's drawings were published by Harper's Bazaar and he...
, Judith Joy Ross
Judith Joy Ross
Judith Joy Ross , in Hazleton, Pennsylvania, American portrait photographer. She has created a body of black-and-white portraits using traditional photographic tools and subject matter. With her old-fashioned 8x10-inch view camera mounted on a tripod, she directly confronts her sitters, whether...
, Paolo Roversi
Paolo Roversi
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, Michal Rovner, Lucas Samaras
Lucas Samaras
Lucas Samaras , is an artist, born in Kastoria, Greece. He studied at Rutgers University on a scholarship, where he met Allan Kaprow and George Segal. While at Rutgers, he joined Gamma Sigma . He participated in Kaprow's "Happenings," and posed for Segal's plaster sculptures...
, Fazal Sheikh
Fazal Sheikh
Fazal Sheikh is an American photographer.He graduated from Princeton University in 1987.He exhibited at the International Center of Photography, and the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, at Tate Modern, London; the Henri Cartier-Bresson Foundation, Paris, and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Moscow.He...
, Kiki Smith
Kiki Smith
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, Alfred Stieglitz
Alfred Stieglitz
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, Frederick Sommer
Frederick Sommer
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, JoAnn Verburg, and William Wegman
William Wegman (photographer)
William Wegman is an artist best known for creating series of compositions involving dogs, primarily his own Weimaraners in various costumes and poses.-Life and career:...
.
Among the exhibitions curated by MacGill and held at Pace/MacGill Gallery are: Paul Strand: Exhibition Prints
from '291, 1984; Charles Sheeler: Vintage Photographs, 1985; Irving Penn: 48 Portraits from 1948, 1992; Alfred Stieglitz: Photographs from the Collection of Georgia O'Keeffe, 1993; Robert Frank: Flower is...Paris, 1949–1951, 1997; Laszlo Moholy-Nagy: Early Experiments, 1922–1932, 1997; Cropping and Picture Making, 1999; Man Ray: Important Vintage Photographs, 1999; Philip-Lorca diCorcia: Heads, 2001; David Byrne, 2003; Andy Warhol: Red Books, 2004; Frederick Sommer: Frederick Sommer at 100, 2005; Irving Penn: Underfoot, 2005; Emmet Gowin: Mariposas Nocturnas, Edith in Panama, 2005; Richard Misrach: Chronologies, 2006; Harry Callahan: Nature, 2007; Tod Papageorge: Passing Through Eden - Photographs of Central Park, 2007; Diane Arbus, Richard Avedon, August Sander, 2008; Josef Koudelka: Invasion 68 Prague, 2008; Judith Joy Ross: Protest the War, 2008; Richard Benson: Found Views and Chosen Colors, 2008. Although Pace/MacGill specializes in photography, the gallery has also exhibited non-photographic work since the mid-1990s.
MacGill negotiated the sales of the Thomas Walther Collection to the Museum of Modern Art, New York in 2001, the Manfred Heiting Collection to the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston in 2002, as well as a portion of the Paul Strand Archive in 2006. MacGill also negotiated the February 2008 sale of Irving Penn’s “Small Trades” series to the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles. Pace/MacGill has established many price records for individual works by Paul Strand, Charles Sheeler, Alfred Stieglitz, Andre Kertesz, Man Ray, Diane Arbus, and Paul Outerbridge. According to Sotheby’s, MacGill was the high bidder in 2006 for The Pond-Moonlight -- a 1904 photograph by Edward Steichen that shattered the record for the most expensive photograph ever sold at auction at more than $2.9 million.
About Pace/MacGill, MacGill states: "photography is the visual language of our time. . . We've always tried to show interesting photographs by the artists who approach the medium with a kind of intelligence, originality and passion . . . We seek to do our job as a gallery as well as our artists do theirs. They set the standard at the highest level possible and we try to follow suit.”