GALLERY

GREG FRENCH SELECTED RESUME.
Most of the listings below involved the lending of images.

  AFFILIATIONS:

The Daguerreian Society: Chair of the Auction Committee. Former two-term Board of Directors.

'The Mirror of Race' at Boston College, Advisory Board.

Photographic Historical Society of New England (PHSNE): Member. Vendor.


EXHIBITIONS:

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston: Painted Tintypes: Photography for the People, April 1–October 15, 2023

Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, CT: I am Seen...Therefore, I Am: Isaac Julien and Frederick Douglass, May 18 - September 24, 2023

Virginia Museum of Fine Arts: Storied Strings: The Guitar in American Art, October 2022 - March 19, 2023

Bowdoin College Museum of Art: There Is a Woman in Every Color: Black Women in Art, September 2021 - January 30, 2022

The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art: Golden Prospects: Daguerreotypes of the California Gold Rush, September 2019- January 2020.

Museum of African American History, Boston and Nantucket: Picturing Frederick Douglass: The Most Photographed American of the 19th Century, July 2016- August 2019

New Orleans Museum of Art: East of the Mississippi: Nineteenth-Century American Landscape Photography, October 2017- January 2018.

National Gallery of Art: East of the Mississippi: Nineteenth-Century American Landscape Photography, March 12 - July 16, 2017.

Currier Museum of Art, Manchester, NH: Mount Washington, The Crown of New England, October 1, 2016 - January 16, 2017.

Fenimore Art Museum, Cooperstown, NY: A Perfect Likeness: Folk Portraits and Early Photography, 2015.

Plymouth Center for The Arts, Plymouth, Massachusetts: One of three Judges for the Annual Photo Contest. 2015.

MIT Museum: Collecting Photography: A Roundtable Discussion. Panelist. 2014.

The Massachusetts Historical Society: 'Tell it with Pride.' 2014.

Adams Gallery at Suffolk University: 'The Mirror of Race: Seeing Ourselves Through History.' 2014.

The National Portrait Gallery: 'Bound for Freedom's Light: African Americans and the Civil War.' 2013 - 2014.

Taft Museum of Art: 'Local Exposures: Cincinnati Daguerreotypes.' 2013.

The National Gallery of Art: 'Tell it with Pride.' 2013.

Harvard University: 'Conservation of Daguerreotypes: A Collaborative Workshop in Photograph Conservation.' Hosted by the Weissman Preservation Center, Harvard University Library. 2009.

The Abraham Lincoln Bi-Centennial Exhibit, Federal Hall, New York City: Hosted by Rail Splitter, under the auspices of the National Park Service. 2009.

The Getty Museum: 'Dialogue Among Giants, Carleton Watkins and the Rise of Photography in California.' 2008-2009.

The National Gallery of Australia: 'Picture Paradise: Asia-Pacific Photography 1840s-1940s.' 2008.

Daguerreian Society Symposium, Savannah, Georgia: 'Positive Images: Early African American Photographs.' Curator. 2003.

  DOCUMENTARIES:

'Country Music.' A film by Ken Burns. PBS, 2019.

'Through a Lens Darkly: Black Photographers and the Emergence of a People.' Directed by Thomas Allen Harris. Inspired by Deborah Willis' 'Reflections in Black.' PBS, 2015.

The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross.' Written and presented by Henry Louis Gates, Jr. WGBH/PBS, 2013.

American Experience: 'The Abolitionists.' Written, produced, and directed by Rob Rapley. WGBH/PBS, 2013.

American Experience and Frontline: 'God in America.' WGBH/PBS, 2010.

'Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson.' A film by Ken Burns. PBS, 2004.

'Becoming American: The Chinese Experience.' Produced by Bill Moyers. PBS, 2003.

'Africans in America.' WGBH/PBS, 1998-1999.

  BOOKS:

'Golden Prospects: Daguerreotypes of the California Gold Rush' Jane L. Aspinwall, with Contributions from Keith F. Davis, Hall Family Foundation with The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Yale University Press 2019

'Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom' by David W. Blight. Simon & Schuster 2019.

'Facing Frederick: The Life of Frederick Douglass, a Monumental American Man', Tonya Bolden. Abrams Books for Young Readers 2018.

'East of the Mississippi: Nineteenth-Century American Landscape Photography' by Diane Waggoner with Russell Lord and Jennifer Raab. National Gallery of Art, Yale University Press, 2017.

'Faces of the Civil War Navies: An Album of Union and Confederate Sailors' by Ronald S. Coddington. Johns Hopkins University Press 2016.

'Picturing Frederick Douglass: An Illustrated Biography of the Nineteenth Century's Most Photographed American.' By John Stauffer, Zoe Trodd, Celeste-Marie Bernier, with an Epilogue by Henry Louis Gates, Jr., and an Afterword by Kenneth B. Morris, Jr. 2015

'The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross.' By Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and Donald Yacovone. Smiley Books. 2013.

'Antique Photographica: The Collector's Vision.' By Bryan and Page Ginns. Schiffer Publishing. Authored the chapter: 'Behind the Scenes.' 2013.

'African American Faces of the Civil War.' By Ronald S. Coddington. The Johns Hopkins University Press. 2012.

'Finding Family.' By Tonya Bolden. Bloomsbury. Consultant. 2010.

'Women in Pants' by Catherine Smith and Cynthia Greig, Harry N. Abrams, Publisher 2003.

'In the Spirit of Martin: The Living Legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.' By Gary Miles Chapman, Nikki Giovanni, and Walter Leonard. Tinwood Books. 2002.

'Silver and Gold: Cased Images of the California Gold Rush' by Drew Heath Johnson & Marcia Eymann. Oakland Museum of Art, University of Iowa Press 1998.

'America and the Daguerreotype.' By John Wood. University of Iowa Press. 1991.

Jaya Hobbs is the Associate Curator at Greg French Early Photography. She has been with the company since 2003.

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