Peter Johnston Galassi (born April 18, 1951) is an American writer, curator, and art historian working in the field of photography.
in Visual and Environmental Studies from Harvard College (1972) and a Ph.D. in Art History and Archaeology from Columbia University (1986).
[5] Galassi was Chief Curator of Photography at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) from 1991 to 2011.
[8] He was replaced as chief curator of photography at MoMA in December 2012 by Quentin Bajac, after retiring in 2011.
[11] The exhibit was published in the book PROOF: Photography in the Era of the Contact Sheet from the Collection of Mark Schwartz + Bettina Katz in 2020, written by Galassi.