Patrick Montgomery was born in Cincinnati on September 13,1949.
12 Facts About Patrick Montgomery
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Patrick Montgomery graduated from St Xavier High School in 1967 and received a Bachelor of Finance degree from the University of Notre Dame in 1971.
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Patrick Montgomery moved to New York in 1974 and landed a job with Killiam Shows, Inc.
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Patrick Montgomery was a founding member of the Non-Theatrical Film Distributors Association in 1974.
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In 1979, Patrick Montgomery formed Archive Film Productions, Inc In 1980 he produced the documentary John Schelsinger Directs the Tales of Hoffmann for the newly formed Bravo Channel and in 1981 served as the line producer for an independent feature film called New York Beat, starring a then unknown Jean Michel Basquiat, which was eventually released in 2000 as Downtown 81.
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Patrick Montgomery then began to branch out into archival stock photos and acquired the photo agencies Frederick Lewis, Inc and Pictorial Parade, Inc and several other photo collections to form Archive Photos.
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In 2007, Montgomery formed Archive Farms Inc, to manage the archival film and photo collections he had acquired or assembled since selling to The Image Bank, most notably, The Travel Film Archive, which owns the collections of several important travelogue film makers including Burton Holmes, Andre de la Varre, and James Fitzpatrick, and The Bert Morgan Archive, which he acquired from the heirs of high society photographer Bert Morgan in 2009.
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Patrick Montgomery represents The Caribbean Photo Archive and The History of Photography Archive, two private collections of 19th century photography assembled by Montgomery over a ten-year period.
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From 2001 to 2019, Patrick Montgomery served as a member of the Board of Trustees of The George Eastman House Museum in Rochester, NY.
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Patrick Montgomery was named Vice Chairman of the Board in 2004 and has served as chairman of both the Photography Acquisition Committee and the Conservation Committee.
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Patrick Montgomery was on the Board of Trustees of The Film Forum in New York City from 2008 until 2013, and served on the advisory board of Witness from 2001 to 2006.
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Patrick Montgomery has been a member of The Grolier Club since 2017.