Philip Gefter | |
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| Nationality | American |
| Alma mater | Pratt Institute |
| Genre | non-fiction |
| Subject | arts |
| Spouse | Richard Press |
Philip Gefter is an American author and photography historian.[1] His books include Cocktails with George and Martha: Movies, Marriage, and the Making of Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?;[2] What Becomes A Legend Most, the biography of Richard Avedon;[3] and Wagstaff: Before and After Mapplethorpe,[4] the biography of Sam Wagstaff, for which he received the 2014 Marfield Prize, the national award for arts writing. He is also the author of George Dureau: The Photographs, and Photography After Frank, a book of essays published by Aperture in 2009. He was on staff at The New York Times for over fifteen years, where he wrote regularly about photography. He produced the 2011 documentary film, Bill Cunningham New York.
- ^ Baker, Kenneth (2009-06-02). "Looking in on photographer Robert Frank". Sfgate.com. Retrieved 2009-09-12.
- ^ "Cocktails with George and Martha". Bloomsbury.
- ^ "What Becomes a Legend Most". Harper Collins.
- ^ "Wagstaff: Before and After Mapplethorpe by Philip Gefter, book review". The Independent. 29 January 2015. Archived from the original on 2022-05-26. Retrieved 2019-01-06.