Episode 22: A Conversation with Howard Greenberg
Formerly a photographer and founder of The Center for Photography in Woodstock in 1977, Howard Greenberg has been one of a small group of gallerists, curators and historians responsible for the creation and development of the modern market for photography. Howard Greenberg Gallery—founded in 1981 and originally known as Photofind—was the first to consistently exhibit photojournalism and 'street' photography, now accepted as important components of photographic art.
Howard Greenberg Gallery maintains diverse and extensive holdings of photographic prints including Eugène Atget, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Bruce Davidson, André Kertész, William Klein, Gordon Parks, Edward Steichen, Paul Strand, Josef Sudek, and Edward Weston on its roster of artists. More recent additions include Edward Burtynsky, Jungjin Lee, Joel Meyerowitz, and Vivian Maier. In 2013 Howard Greenberg Gallery announced exclusive representation for the estates of Berenice Abbott and Arnold Newman. In 2018 Howard Greenberg Gallery became the primary representative of the Ray K. Metzker Archive.
In 2019 Greenberg sold 447 photographs from his collection to the Museum of Fine Art in Boston. Carefully assembled over more than three decades, the collection comprises 447 photographs by 191 artists, including rare prints of modernist masterpieces and mid-20th-century classics.
This conversation took place over Zoom in January 2023.
Subject guide:
0:1:00- 0:10:00
Arthur Leipzig, Woodstock, Jerry Uelsmann, Apeiron Workshop, Birdcliff Colony, Eva Watson- Schütze, Photo-Secession, Lee Witkin, Marjorie Neikrug Gallery, Marcuse Pfeifer, Gerd Sander, Light Gallery, Lexington Labs, Arthur Tress, Photocare
0:10:00-0:20:00
Harry Lunn, Jack Taylor, Edward Weston, Anne Horton, Joseph Pond, Frances Benjamin Johnston, Russell Lee, Migrant Mother, Center for Photography at Woodstock, Sotheby’s PB84 Auctions, Swann Galleries, Christie’s East, Camera Work, Camera Notes, Todd Watts, Berenice Abbott, Ansel Adams Center for Photography, Light Works Syracuse, Ulster County Townsman, Michael Feinberg (Mifei), Karl Berger
0:20:00-0:30:00
Minor White, Jim Reinish, Virginia Zabriskie, Walker Evans, Paul Strand, Russell Lee, Comprehensive Employment and Training Act (CETA), Ulster County Media Resources, Robert Frank, Berenice Abbott, Photo League, Anne Tucker, Janice Mehlman, Walter Rosenblum, Naomi Rosenblum, Sy Kattelson
0:30:00-0:40:00
Leon Levenstein, Lewis Hine, Beaumont Newhall, Jan Livingston, Sid Grossman, Alexey Brodovitch, Imogen Cunningham, Lyle Rexer, Michael Torosian, George Rinhart, Harry Lunn, Scott Elliot, Kelmscott Gallery, Paul Katz, G. Ray Hawkins, Keith Delellis, Jeffrey Fraenkel, Larry Miller, Robert Mann, Peter MacGill
0:40:00-0:50:00
Daniel Wolf, Bonni Benrubi, Robert Schoelkopf, Marcuse Pfeifer, Marjorie Neikrug, Josef Sudek, Association of International Photography Art Dealers (AIPAD), Rudolf Kicken, Annette Kicken, Zoltán Deutsch, Photofind, Larry Miller
0:50:00-1:00:00
Jacob Riis, Alexander Alland, Museum of the City of New York, New York Historical Society, Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, Joan Munkácsi, Martin Munkácsi, Sam Wagstaff, F.C. Gundlach, Tom Solley
1:00:00-1:10:00
Museum of Fine Art Boston, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Joanna Steichen, Edward Steichen, Diana Edkins
1:10:00-1:30:00
Joanna Steichen, Barbara Haskell, Whitney Museum of American Art, Vivian Meier, John Maloof, Jeff Goldstein, Tom Gitterman, Parker Stephenson, Bruce Silverstein, Michael Foley, Steven Kasher, Rick Wester, Lisa Hostetler, Louis Faurer, Joshua Chuang, Sarah Morthland
