Interview with Peter Le Grand
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Peter Le Grand (he/him) is a photographer and professor emeritus at Columbia College Chicago. He was born in Bussum, The Netherlands, and was raised in Naarden, The Netherlands. He received an Associates of Arts from Grand Rapids Community College, a Bachelor of Business Administration from the University of Michigan in Dearborn in Marketing, and a Master of Fine Arts in photography from Governors State University. At Columbia College Chicago, he began as a part-time faculty member and taught photography in 1980, initially teaching Darkroom 101. He then became a full-time faculty member in 1987 and taught Product Photography. In 2011, he became a professor emeritus and has since left the college. He resides in Chicago, still creating photographs, with a focus on nude photography. Length: 84:54. Transcript: 15 pages.
Publication Date
Fall 2024
Publisher
Columbia College Chicago
City
Chicago
Keywords
photography, art, teaching, creativity, Illinois, Chicago
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 International License.
Disciplines
Arts and Humanities | Communication | History | Photography | Social and Behavioral Sciences
Recommended Citation
Loza-Sanchez, Miguel, "Interview with Peter Le Grand" (2024). Photography at Columbia College Chicago, 2024-2025. 5.
https://digitalcommons.colum.edu/photo_oh/5
Comments
The Photography at Columbia College Chicago oral history project documents the program taught here from the perspective of faculty and alumni. Conducted as part of a larger Columbia College Chicago oral history project focused on capturing oral histories from people who shaped the modern Columbia, these interviews offer personal narrative insights into the evolution and history of the college photography program. Students in the Oral History: The Art of the Interview class taught by Dr. Erin McCarthy, conducted the interviews.