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Joseph Coscia, Jr (1960 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) is an American photographer. After graduating from Kutztown University of Pennsylvania, he soon made his mark in the 1980’s New York art scene as a trusted photographer for artists such as Keith Haring, Dan Friedman, Richard Prince, Komar and Melamid, Maya Lin, Anthony Gormley, Vladimir Kanevsky and Terence Main. His specialty photographing art and objects led to a position as staff photographer for The Metropolitan Museum of Art from 1991 until 2020, including as Chief Photographer there from 2006 until 2020. He is currently the photographer for The Frick Collection.
Joseph’s museum work fostered in him an affinity for classical forms and fascination with the qualities of light on surfaces and forms in changing conditions. In both his museum and personal work, he explores textures, surfaces, and the play of light on and through objects. He has produced photography for private collections and galleries including Art et Industrie, Tony Shafrazi Gallery, Salvatore Ala Gallery, Rosa Esman Gallery, The Jan and Maricia Vilcek Foundation, Paul and Melinda Sullivan Foundation for the Decorative Arts, Pace Gallery, Peter Marino, and The Keith Haring Foundation.
Recent one-person shows include:
- Light on Stone - Hixenbaugh Ancient Art, New York, NY, 2016
- Recent Images - Hixenbaugh Ancient Art, New York, NY, 2017
- Object and Image - Hixenbaugh Ancient Art, New York, NY, 2018
- Oceanids - Monmouth University, Joan and Robert Rechnitz Hall, Monmouth NJ, 2018
Joseph's work has appeared in many notable publications including:
Dan Friedman: Radical Modernism, Dan Friedman (author) with Jeffrey Deitch (contributor) Steven Holt (contributor), and Alessandro Mendini (contributor), Yale University Press, New Haven, 1994.
American Modern, 1925 - 1940: Design for a New Age, Stewart J. Johnson, Harry N. Abrams, Publisher, NY, 2000.
Light on Stone: Greek and Roman Sculpture in The Metropolitan Museum of Art: A Photographic Essay; Elizabeth J. Milliker and Joseph Coscia, Jr., The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2003.
Louis Comfort Tiffany and Laurelton Hall: An Artist's Country Estate, Alice Cooney Frelinghuysen, Metropolitan Museum Of Art/Yale University Press, NY, 2006
AngloMania: Tradition and Transgression in British Fashion, Andrew Bolton and Harold Koda, Yale University Press, New Haven, 2007
Fired by Passion: Viennese Baroque Porcelain of Claudius Innocentius du Paquier, Meredith Chilton with Johann Kräftner, Claudia Lehner-Jobst, Ghenete Zelleke, Johanna Lessmann, Sebastian Kuhn, Katharina Hantschmann, Samuel Wittwer. Arnoldsche Art Publishers, Stuttgart, 2009
European Sculpture, 1400-1900: In The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Ian Wardropper, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2011
Masterpieces of American Modernism: From the Vilcek Collection, William C. Agee and Lewis Kachur, Merrell, New York & London, 2013
French Art Deco, Jared Goss, The Metropolitan Museum of Art/ Yale University Press, New Haven, London 2014.
Islamic Arms and Armor: in The Metropolitan Museum of Art, David Alexander, Stuart W. Pyhrr, Will Kwiatkowski, The Metropolitan Museum of Art/ Yale University Press, New Haven, London 2015.
Maiolica: Italian Renaissance Ceramics in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Timothy Wilson with an essay by Luke Syson, The Metropolitan Museum of Art/ Yale University Press, New Haven, London 2016.
European Porcelain in the Metropolitan Museum of Art – Highlights of the Collection, Jeffrey Munger with an essay by Elizabeth Sullivan, The Metropolitan Museum of Art/ Yale University Press, New Haven, London 2018.
Frick Madison: The Frick Collection at the Breuer Building, Xavier F. Salomon (author), Joseph Coscia Jr. (photographer), and Roxane Gay (foreword), GILES Publishers, NY, 2001
References
editBucks County Artists Database; Michener Museum, ttps://bucksco.michenerartmuseum.org/
Ricard Preston, "Capturing the Unicorn", The New Yorker, April 5, 2025 https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2005/04/11/capturing-the-unicorn
Dan Friedman: Radical Modernism, Dan Friedman (author) with Jeffrey Deitch (contributor) Steven Holt (contributor), and Alessandro Mendini (contributor), Yale University Press, New Haven, 1994.
American Modern, 1925 - 1940: Design for a New Age, Stewart J. Johnson, Harry N. Abrams, Publisher, NY, 2000.
Light on Stone: Greek and Roman Sculpture in The Metropolitan Museum of Art: A Photographic Essay; Elizabeth J. Milliker and Joseph Coscia, Jr., The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2003.
Louis Comfort Tiffany and Laurelton Hall: An Artist's Country Estate, Alice Cooney Frelinghuysen, Metropolitan Museum Of Art/Yale University Press, NY, 2006
AngloMania: Tradition and Transgression in British Fashion, Andrew Bolton and Harold Koda, Yale University Press, New Haven, 2007
Fired by Passion: Viennese Baroque Porcelain of Claudius Innocentius du Paquier, Meredith Chilton with Johann Kräftner, Claudia Lehner-Jobst, Ghenete Zelleke, Johanna Lessmann, Sebastian Kuhn, Katharina Hantschmann, Samuel Wittwer. Arnoldsche Art Publishers, Stuttgart, 2009
European Sculpture, 1400-1900: In The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Ian Wardropper, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2011
Masterpieces of American Modernism: From the Vilcek Collection, William C. Agee and Lewis Kachur, Merrell, New York & London, 2013
French Art Deco, Jared Goss, The Metropolitan Museum of Art/ Yale University Press, New Haven, London 2014.
Islamic Arms and Armor: in The Metropolitan Museum of Art, David Alexander, Stuart W. Pyhrr, Will Kwiatkowski, The Metropolitan Museum of Art/ Yale University Press, New Haven, London 2015.
Maiolica: Italian Renaissance Ceramics in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Timothy Wilson with an essay by Luke Syson, The Metropolitan Museum of Art/ Yale University Press, New Haven, London 2016.
European Porcelain in the Metropolitan Museum of Art – Highlights of the Collection, Jeffrey Munger with an essay by Elizabeth Sullivan, The Metropolitan Museum of Art/ Yale University Press, New Haven, London 2018.
Frick Madison: The Frick Collection at the Breuer Building, Xavier F. Salomon (author), Joseph Coscia Jr. (photographer), and Roxane Gay (foreword), GILES Publishers, NY, 2001