Biography: (updated 10/6/08)
Sarah Greenough is senior curator of photographs at the National Gallery of Art, Washington. She was the founding curator of photographs at the National Gallery where she has organized numerous exhibitions, including Alfred Stieglitz (1983), On the Art of Fixing a Shadow: 150 Years of Photography (1989), Modern Art and America: Alfred Stieglitz and His New York Galleries (2001), André Kertész (2005), and Irving Penn: Platinum Prints (2005) that have also traveled to museums around the world. Most recently, she was co-curator of The Art of the American Snapshot, 1888-1978: From the Collection of Robert E. Jackson (2007) and organized Richard Misrach: On the Beach (2008) for exhibition at the National Gallery of Art.
Greenough is the author of many
publications, including Walker Evans: Subways
and Streets (1991), Robert Frank: Moving Out (1994), Harry
Callahan (1996), Alfred Stieglitz: The Key Set (2002), and All
the Mighty World: The Photographs of Roger Fenton, 1852–1860 (2004),
with Malcolm Daniel and Gordon Baldwin.
Her exhibitions and publications have won many awards, including the International
Center of Photography Publications Award for On the Art of Fixing a Shadow:
150 Years of Photography and the George Wittenborn Memorial Book Award
for Alfred Stieglitz: The Key Set. In 2007, she and co-author Diane
Waggoner won the College Art Association’s Alfred H. Barr, Jr. award for outstanding
museum scholarship for their exhibition catalogue, The Art of the American
Snapshot: 1888–1978.
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