Farrell Grehan (1926–May 6, 2008) was an American photojournalist, travel and nature photographer of the period from the 1950s to the 2000s whose work appeared in magazines and books.
Farrell's career spanned from 1950s to the 2000s and he worked in locations that included Burma, Lapland, Yemen,[8] Aran Islands, Egypt,[9] Bethlehem,[10] Crete,[8] Moscow[11] and Prague.
For LIFE he documented urban renewal in New York[14] and made photographs of architectural structures by Roberto Burle Marx and Frank Lloyd Wright[15] that represent them in their settings,[16][17] an approach he applied to his full-colour imagery of American wildflowers.
No other flower photographs have captured their subjects with such sensitivity to colour and form.” Such framing-in-depth is evident in his picture City Child which in 1953 had won a $2,000 award,[18] and was chosen in 1955 by Edward Steichen for MoMA's world-touring The Family of Man exhibition that was seen by 9 million visitors;[19][20] Grehan's camera candidly observes through broken fence palings a young girl alone and lost in her thoughts in an overgrown, neglected city garden.
[21] Grehan's notable portrait subjects included artists Salvador Dalí, Alexander Calder, David Alfaro Siqueros, Hans Erni, Man Ray[22] and Marcel Duchamp,[23] the conductor Pierre Monteux, psychologist Jean Piaget,[24] golfer Arnold Palmer, author Friedrich Dürrenmatt, industrial designer Russel Wright,[25][26] and the dancers Martha Graham, Merce Cunningham[27] and Gelsey Kirkland.