Peter MacGill
Peter MacGill is "one of the most important contemporary photographic gallerists".[1] In 2005, he was listed as the 15th most important person in photography by American Photo magazine.[2] He is president of Pace/MacGill Gallery, New York.
Life
Peter MacGill graduated with a BFA from Ohio Wesleyan University 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.
Pace/MacGill Gallery
Pace/MacGill represents the Estates of Harry Callahan, Robert Rauschenberg, 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, 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; László 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.[3]
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, André Kertész, 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.”
References
- ↑ Charles Traub, Steven Heller, Adam B. Bell, The Education of a Photographer, Allworth Communications, Inc., 2006, p229. ISBN 1-58115-450-X
- ↑ The 100 Most Important People in Photography, 2005, American Photo, May/June 2005.
- ↑ Philip Gefter, What’s New in Photography: Anything but Photos, The New York Times, December 3, 2006.
