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Mark Feeney, an arts writer, has been at the Globe since 1979. He writes mostly about photography and film.
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His first job at the paper was in the library, filing photographs. Since then, he has been – pause for a deep breath -- assistant book editor; book editor; editor of the Globe’s Focus section (the predecessor of the Ideas section); a staff writer at the Globe magazine; a feature writer, specializing in profiles of authors and intellectual figures; photography reviewer; and movie reviewer. At various times, he’s also edited the paper’s coverage of movies, television, and the visual arts.
In 1994, he was a finalist for a Pulitzer Prize for feature writing. The article in question was a retrospective view of Richard Nixon on the occasion of his 80th birthday. Feeney estimates he’s written more about Nixon than any other subject. A very distant runner-up is Andy Warhol.
In 2008, Feeney won a Pulitzer Prize for criticism. The citation praised his “penetrating and versatile command of the visual arts, from film and photography to painting.” He subsequently served four times as a Pulitzer juror, three times in criticism (once as chair) and once in general nonfiction (as chair).
Feeney has taught at Brandeis, Princeton, Yale, Brown, and Boston College. He’s written for The New York Times, The New Republic, the Los Angeles Times, The Washington Monthly, Commonweal, and other publications.
Feeney graduated from Harvard, where he concentrated in History & Literature. The author of “Nixon at the Movies: A Book about Belief” (University of Chicago Press, 2004), he’s writing a book about the 1970s.
** CORRECTION ** The Garry Winogrand book shown in this video is incorrectly referenced. Mr. Feeney was discussing a retrospective book from a New York show curated by John Szarkowski. The image shown is from a different museum, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. The correct image can be seen at the link below.
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