Book Review
Published in Camera Austria International 159
For Camera Austria International, I wrote about Robert Slifkin's “Quitting Your Day Job: Chauncey Hare’s Photographic Work.” Slifkin’s biography of the (in)famous misfit documentary photographer that was published by MACK won the historical book award Les Rencontres des la Photographie Arles 2022. It offers an umcompromised view at the many contradictions which defined Hare’s attitude. Hare, who appears to have been spell-bound by the North American picture tradition of straight photography, at the same time alligned himself with its dominant forms, and tried to break with institutional photography alltogether.
Available at Camera Austria.
Book Review
Published in Camera Austria International 159
For Camera Austria International, I wrote about Robert Slifkin's “Quitting Your Day Job: Chauncey Hare’s Photographic Work.” Slifkin’s biography of the (in)famous misfit documentary photographer that was published by MACK won the historical book award Les Rencontres des la Photographie Arles 2022. It offers an umcompromised view at the many contradictions which defined Hare’s attitude. Hare, who appears to have been spell-bound by the North American picture tradition of straight photography, at the same time alligned himself with its dominant forms, and tried to break with institutional photography alltogether.
Available at Camera Austria.