Education
Donaghy studied at the Philadelphia Museum School of Art after which he pursued street photography in Philadelphia and New York City using a Leica 35mm camera.
Donaghy studied at the Philadelphia Museum School of Art after which he pursued street photography in Philadelphia and New York City using a Leica 35mm camera.
His first exhibition Two Young Philadelphians: Don Donaghy & George Krause, was held in 1962. Donaghy"s first publication was a re-creation of this exhibition in the Fall 1962 issue of Contemporary Photographer, titled same as the show.(CP1962)(GK1992)
His work is represented in the permanent collections of the Corcoran Gallery of Art, the Museum of Modern Art, George Eastman House, the New York Public Library, the Hallmark Photographic Collection(George Eastman House database), the Metropolitan Museum of Art(Mobile Marketing Association 2008), San Francisco Museum of Modern Art(SFMOMA 2012), the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston(MFAH 2008) and the Smithsonian American Art Museum(SAAM 2013)
The landmark exhibition and publication The New York School, Photographs 1936-1963, by Jane Livingston, also includes a selection of Donaghy"s photographs. Donaghy is featured in "The Last Photographic Heroes: American Photographers of the Sixties and Seventies", by Gilles Mora.
In addition to photography, Donaghy worked as a film editor and a cameraman.
While living in Boulder, Colorado, he was also a construction foreman. Leonard Donald Donaghy died July 23, 2008.
Three Photographers: Nicholas Dean, Bill Hanson, Don Donaghy (Rochester, New York, August 21 to October 21, 1963)(George Eastman House database)
Photography 63/An International Exhibition (Syracuse New York, Rochester New York and Fort Wayne Indiana, August 1963 to February 1964)(George Eastman House database)
Six Photographers I (Contemporary Photographers I) (Rochester New York, 1964)(George Eastman House database)
Photographs Do Not Bend Past Show Listing (October 27 to December 2, 2000 show with Keith Carter)
Gallery Sink, Previous (September 27 to November 29, 2002 group show)
Hemphill Fine Arts Exhibition Archive (2006 show with Benjamin Abramowitz and William Christenberry)
Yancey Richardson Gallery > Past > 2006 (October 27 to November 25, 2006 show)
Chance Encounters: Photographs from the Collection of Norman Carr and Carolyn Kinder Carr (, 2008)
Street Seen: The Psychological Gesture in American Photography, 1940–1959, Milwaukee Art Museum, 2010.