Greg MacGregor

born 1941 La Crosse, Wisconsin; lives Santa Fe, New Mexico

BiographyGreg Mac Gregor is Professor Emeritus of Photography at California State University, East Bay, where he originated the program in 1979 and retired in 2006. He received a Master of Arts in Photography from San Francisco State University in 1970 and a Master of Science in Physics from The South Dakota School of Mines and Technology in 1965. He worked as an astrophysicist from 1965-1970 at Lawrence National Laboratory in Livermore California, and has been professor of photography at various colleges and universities since.

He has served on many boards and faculties including originating and co-chairing the Photography Department at Lone Mountain College in San Francisco (1970-1978), Vice President of camera Work Gallery, San Francisco (1977-1980), chairman of the Western Region of the Society for Photographic Education (1974-1978), and chairman and chief organizer of its national conference in 1981. In addition, he was chairman of the Art Department at California State University, East Bay (1990-1993), on the Board of Directors of New Mexico Council of Photography (2006-2008). He was also a contributing editor to Darkroom Dynamics (Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1979) and has portfolios published in many publications including Popular Photography Annual (1986), Fantastic Photography (Pantheon, 1979) , California Photography, 1945-1980 (Hudson Hills Press 1984), Photography A Facet of Modernism (San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 1986), The Altered Landscape (University of Nevada Press, 2001) and Photography New Mexico (Fresco Fine Arts, 2008).

Mac Gregor has published several books of his projects that include Overland, The California Emigrant Trail of 1841-1870 by the University of New Mexico Press in 1997. The exhibit of this project was on national tour with twenty-four venues, managed by the California Humanities Council. In 2003 The Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University and the University of Washington Press jointly published the book Lewis and Clark Revisited. In 2011 In Seach of Domínguez & Escalante: Photogrpahing the 1776 Spanish Expedition through the Southwest was published by the Museum of New Mexico Press, and authored with the late Seigfreid Halus. The exhibit "Lewis and Clark" was on national tour at various museums between the years 2002 and 2011 with thirty venues.

He has been actively photographing the Great Basin Desert area between Colorado and California for the past thirty years. Projects there include: ''The American Tractor Series" , "New Woman of the American West", "Oddities in the Western Landscape", ''The Mormon Trail", "The Oregon Trail", "The California Emigrant Trail", "The Lewis and Clark Expedition,"Minor Explosions" and "New Mexico Test". The photographs from these projects reside in the collections of over thirty museums.

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