Musée Magazine No. 3

JOEL GREY Joel Grey was born in Cleveland, Ohio. Pictures I Had To Take, his first monograph, published by Powerhouse Books in 2003, collected work created over a 30-year period. His second book, Looking Hard at Unexamined Things, published by Steidl in 2006, featured all new work, highlighting industrial sites, abandoned buildings, graffiti, wall art, detritus and public works from Los Angeles and New York to Berlin and Venice. For his third book, 1.3: Images from My Phone, Grey spent over a year shooting with the camera function of his Nokia phone and the result is a collection of photographs cut from diverse visual worlds: street art and still life, advertising and architecture, shadows and reflections, natural beauty and urban grit. Grey’s work has been the subject of solo shows in New York, Los Angeles and Berlin. His photographs are part of the permanent collection of The Whitney Museum of American Art and the New York Public Library. His life and career were recently the subject of an exhibition at The Museum of the City of New York, titled Joel Grey/A New York Life. Grey is also an award-winning actor in his spare time, best known for his Oscar, Tony, Golden Globe and BAFTA Award-winning performance in Cabaret.