Andy Grundberg

Andy Grundberg (BA Cornell University, MFA University of North Carolina, Greensboro) is a writer, curator, teacher, and arts manager who has been involved with photography and art since the 1970s. As a critic for the New York Times from 1981 to 1991 he covered the rapid ascent of photography within the art world. He later served as director of The Friends of Photography in San Francisco and dean of undergraduate studies at the Corcoran College of Art and Design, which became part of George Washington University, Washington, D.C., in 2015. His books include Crisis of the Real (Aperture, 1999), Alexey Brodovitch (Abrams, 1989), Mike and Doug Starn (Abrams, 1990), and most recently How Photography Became Contemporary Art (Yale University Press, 2021).