Don Donaghy
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, Louis Faurer
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Donaghy studied at the Philadelphia Museum School of Art after which he pursued street photography
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in Philadelphia and New York City using a Leica 35mm camera. His first exhibition Two Young Philadelphians: Don Donaghy & George Krause, was held in 1962.
Donaghy's first publication was a re-creation of this exhibition in the Fall 1962 issue of Contemporary Photographer, titled same as the show.(CP1962)(GK1992)
His work is represented in the permanent collections of the Corcoran Gallery of Art
Corcoran Gallery of Art
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, the Museum of Modern Art
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, George Eastman House
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, the New York Public Library
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, the Hallmark Photographic Collection
Hallmark Photographic Collection
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, (George Eastman House database), the Metropolitan Museum of Art
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(MMA 2008) and the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston(MFAH 2008). He has been the subject of exhibitions throughout the United States.
The landmark exhibition and publication The New York School, Photographs 1936-63, by Jane Livingston, ISBN 978-1556702396 also includes a selection of Donaghy's photographs. Donaghy is featured in "The Last Photographic Heroes: American Photographers of the Sixties and Seventies", by Gilles Mora, ISBN 978-0810993747.
In addition to photography, Donaghy worked as a film editor and a cameraman. While living in Boulder, CO he was also a construction foreman. Leonard Donald Donaghy died July 23, 2008.
Exhibitions
- Three Photographers: Nicholas Dean, Bill Hanson, Don Donaghy (Rochester, NY, Aug 21 to Oct 21, 1963)(George Eastman House database)
- Photography 63/An International Exhibition (Syracuse NY, Rochester NY and Fort Wayne IN, August 1963 to February 1964)(George Eastman House database)
- Six Photographers I (Contemporary Photographers I) (Rochester NY, 1964)(George Eastman House database)
- Photographs Do Not Bend Past Show Listing (Oct 27 to Dec 2, 2000 show with Keith Carter)
- Gallery Sink, Previous Exhibitions (Sep 27 to Nov 29, 2002 group show)
- Hemphill Fine Arts Exhibition Archive (2006 show with Benjamin Abramowitz and William ChristenberryWilliam ChristenberryWilliam Christenberry is a photographer, painter, and sculptor who works with personal and somewhat mythical themes growing out of his childhood experiences in Hale County, Alabama....
) - Yancey Richardson Gallery > Past Exhibitions > 2006 (Oct 27 to Nov 25, 2006 show)
- Chance Encounters: Photographs from the Collection of Norman Carr and Carolyn Kinder Carr ([Corcoran Gallery of Art], 2008)
- Street Seen: The Psychological Gesture in American Photography, 1940–1959, Milwaukee Art Museum, 2010