Max Kozloff (b. June 21, 1933): Untitled, n.d. - oil on canvas (Smithsonian)“Historian and critic of modern art; photographer. Kozloff graduated from the University of Chicago in 1953. Between 1954-56 he served in the U.S. Army and then returning to the University of Chicago for his A. M. in 1958. He entered New York University’s Institute of Fine Arts in 1959 for his Ph.D.. He taught at NYU, joining the Nation as art critic in 1961 (remaining until 1968) and Art International. Kozloff was awarded a Fulbright fellowship for the, 1962-63 year. He won a Pulitzer Prize for critical writing, 1962-63. He left NYU in 1964 and began contributing to Artforum as an associate editor. In 1965 he earned the Frank Jewett Mather Award for art criticism from College Art Association of America. He married the artist Joyce Blumberg in 1967. The same year he became a contributing editor to Artforum. He was a Guggenheim fellow for 1968-69. Kozloff wrote the volume on Jasper Johns for the Abrams artist series in 1968. In 1972 he was named an associate editor of books at Artforum. He published his book Cubism/ Futurism in 1973. Kozloff was executive editor of the magazine between 1975 and 1977. A second Jasper Johns book appeared in 1986. In 1989 he joined the School of Visual Arts.
Kozloff switched careers, becoming an art photographer in 1976. He held numerous shows, initially photographing store windows, and then to the people of New York, intentionally following the path of Jewish itinerant photographers of the city. His subsequent notions of photography were criticized, especially the notion that Jewish photographers has a special way of making images.” (Source)
