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Biography

Sarah Greenough
Senior Curator, Department of Photographs
National Gallery of Art, Washington

Sarah Greenough, senior curator of photographs at the National Gallery of Art, Washington

Sarah Greenough is senior curator and head of the department of photographs at the National Gallery of Art, Washington. She has organized numerous exhibitions for the Gallery, 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), Irving Penn: Platinum Prints (2005), and Looking In: Robert Frank's The Americans (2009) that have also traveled to museums around the world. She was also co-curator of The Art of the American Snapshot, 1888-1978: From the Collection of Robert E. Jackson (2007), Impressed by Light: British Photographs from Paper Negatives, 1840-1860, (2008) and curator of Beat Memories: The Photographs of Allen Ginsberg (2010).

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), All the Mighty World: The Photographs of Roger Fenton, 1852–1860 (2004), with Malcolm Daniel and Gordon Baldwin, and My Faraway One: Selected Letters of Georgia O'Keeffe and Alfred Stieglitz, Volume One, 1915-1933, Yale University Press, 2011. Outstanding Museum Catalogue of the Year, 2009 from the Association of Art Museum Curators' award for Looking In: Robert Frank's "The Americans."

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, 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. In 2010, Greenough won the International Center for Photography's Infinity Award for Publications for Looking In: Robert Frank's "The Americans."

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