Peter C. Bunnell (1937–2021) was a prominent American photographic scholar, curator, and educator. He served as the inaugural David Hunter McAlpin Professor of the History of Photography and Modern Art at Princeton University from 1972 until his retirement in 2002. During his tenure, he also served as Director of the Princeton University Art Museum (1973–1978) and Acting Director (1998–2000). Bunnell was a student of both Clarence H. White Jr. and Minor White, whose archive he eventually secured for Princeton. He held significant curatorial roles at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, where he organized groundbreaking exhibitions such as 'Photography as Printmaking' (1968) and 'Photography into Sculpture' (1970). His scholarship focused on American photography, particularly the work of Minor White and Jerry N. Uelsmann.[1,2]
Minor White: The Eye That Shapes1989 · Art Museum Princeton University / Bulfinch Press · book · EnglishISBN 943012104Accompanying a retrospective exhibition of White's photographs.
Degrees of Guidance: Essays on Twentieth-Century American Photography1993 · bookAnthology of essays.
Inside the Photograph: Writings on Twentieth-Century Photography2006 · bookAnthology of essays.
A Photographic Vision: Pictorial Photography, 1889–19231980 · bookEdited anthology.
Edward Weston on Photography1983 · bookEdited anthology.
Aperture Magazine Anthology: The Minor White Years, 1952–19762012 · bookEdited anthology.
Exhibitions
1989Minor White: The Eye That ShapesMuseum of Modern Art, New Yorkgroup
Awards
1989George Wittenborn Memorial Award of the Art Libraries Society of North AmericaArt Libraries Society of North America
