Farrell Grehan

Career

Magazine work, exhibitions and recognition, from the 1950s into the 2000s.

LIFE

Contract photographer for about twelve years, and photographer for the Life World Library books on the Low Countries and Switzerland. Selected picture essays:

  1. August 10, 1959

    “A Newer New York”, on the city’s urban renewal

  2. March 16, 1962

    Russel Wright’s home, Dragon Rock

  3. 1962

    How to Succeed in Business on Broadway

  4. 1970

    Gelsey Kirkland and George Balanchine

  5. December 15, 1972

    Bethlehem

National Geographic

  1. 1976

    John Muir’s Wild America, a National Geographic Society book, text by Tom Melham

  2. March 1981

    “Thoreau: Following the Tracks of a Different Man”, text by William Howarth

  3. October 1986

    “The Dutch Touch”, text by Bart McDowell, photographs with Nathan Benn

Other magazines

The Saturday Evening Post, Sports Illustrated, Avenue, The World & I and Animan.

Exhibitions

Group exhibitions at the Museum of Modern Art, New York.

  1. 1953

    Always the Young Strangers

  2. 1955

    The Family of Man

    Curated by Edward Steichen. The exhibition later toured the world and was seen by about nine million people.

  3. 1958–59

    Photographs from the Museum Collection

  4. 1960

    A Sense of Abstraction

  5. 1965

    The Photo Essay

  6. 1968

    Ben Schultz Memorial Exhibition

Recognition

  1. 1953

    His photograph “City Child” won a $2,000 prize and was later chosen by Edward Steichen for The Family of Man.

  2. 2004

    Included in The Great LIFE Photographers, edited by John Loengard with Gordon Parks.

Portraits

Among the people he photographed:

Places

Abroad

United States

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