Eugenia Parry Janis

Eugenia Parry Janis (born July 28, 1940) is an American art historian. A 1973 Guggenheim Fellow, she originally studied painting before switching to photography after learning several lesser-known Parisian painters went into photography due to financial issues, and she has written several books, exhibition catalogues, and essays. She also worked at Wellesley College and the University of New Mexico teaching art and photography.

Biography Eugenia Parry Janis was born on July 28, 1940, in Chicago to Greek-American parents and raised on the South Side.

In 1968, Janis joined Wellesley College as an art instructor. By 1991, she became the first George Eastman House Visiting Scholars Fellow. (exhibition catalogue) Exhibition of Nineteenth Century Photography at Jewett Arts Center (1969) (as essayist) The Painterly Print: Monotypes from the Seventeenth to the Twentieth Century (1980) (with André Jammes) The Art of French Calotype (1983) The Photography of Gustave Le Gray (1987) (as essayist) Nuclear Enchantment (1991, by Patrick Nagatani)