Nancy Lee Katz

Nancy Lee Katz (June 12, 1947 - March 22, 2018) was an American photographer.[1] Katz "dedicated a period of 25 years to a private project of photographing people, mainly in the arts, whose work she respected. She kept the pictures to herself, never offering them for sale, or for exhibit, or for publication."[2]

The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston holds seventy-two of her photographs, including her portraits of Richard Serra, Robert Rauschenberg, Ravi Shankar, Maya Lin, Martin Puryear and Louise Bourgeois.[3] Her work is also included in the collections of the Art Institute of Chicago,[4] the Museum of Fine Arts Boston,[5] the National Library of France,[6] RISD Museum.,[7]Albertina Museum,[8]Library of Congress,[9]Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art,[10]National Gallery of Art,[11] Royal Collection Trust,[12]George Eastman Museum,[13] Harvard Art Museums.[14]Minneapolis Institute of Art[15] Yale University Art Gallery[16] Princeton University Art Museum[17] Tokyo Photographic Art Museum[18] and National Gallery of Victoria[19]

Malcolm Daniel, Curator of Photography at Museum of Fine Arts Houston, has written a short essay on Katz and Nadar:[20]

Groups of Katz’s photographs appeared in the exhibition FACES in 2022 at the Albertina Moderne in Vienna [21] and in the 2021/2022 Barbara Kruger exhibition at the Art Institute of Chicago.[22]

Photographic portraits by Nancy Lee Katz have been published in books and exhibition catalogues, among which: Constantin Brancusi and Richard Serra: A Handbook of Possibilities (front cover),[23] Richard Serra: Writings/Interviews (front cover),[24] Alex Katz Cool Paintings (page 215) [25] Ruth Bader Ginsburg - Justice, Justice Thou Shalt Pursue (page 10 of photograph section),[26] Abakanowicz konfrontacje (page 4),[27] American Muse - The Life and Times of William Schuman (page 318),[28]