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FRAENKEL GALLERY
Katy Grannan: The Ninety Nine and The Nine
The result of three years of work in California's Central Valley, Katy Grannan's new series The 99 features large-scale color portraits and black-and-white photographs. Grannan's recent photographs are set in the parched landscape and forgotten towns along Highway 99, including Modesto, Fresno and Bakersfield. In her intensely vivid color portraits, the artist works at midday when the sun is direct and the heat is unrelenting, presenting each individual, often simultaneously heroic and vulnerable, against stark, white backgrounds. In the black-and-white photographs, many of her subjects re-appear on Modesto's South 9th Street and along the banks of the Tuolumne River. Everyday rituals, small interactions and moments of beauty on the fringes of society are depicted in detail, conferring significance to what is often overlooked. This large-format, two-volume, slipcased monograph gathers this series for the first time. Katy Grannan (born 1969) has published three previous monographs: Model American, The Westerns and Boulevard. Her photographs are included in the collections of the Whitney Museum of American Art, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, the Guggenheim Museum, New York, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, among others. Grannan lives and works in Berkeley, CA.
Featured image is reproduced from Katy Grannan: The 99.
PRAISE AND REVIEWS
TIME LightBox
Grannan revisits the scenes of Dorothea Lange's legendary FSA images and shows that despite the decades that have passed, some images will always be resonant and relevant.
Photograph Magazine
Vince Aletti
Grannan's strong, deeply felt photographs, as tough as their subjects, already look like classics, and the book treats them with all due respect.
American Photo
Debbie Grossman
Grannan's potraits of the homeless and destitute show how capitalism, addiction adn illness leave many behind. Yet this collection also offers insight into the lives of people on the fringe of society and the beauty lurking within weathered bodies.
"My mom used to tell me not to worry so much. She'd say, 'Every hair on your head is counted. The Bible says you're worth more than hundreds of sparrows.' I'm not sure about that. Sparrows are so gentle and lovely. And hundreds of them? Hell, even one sparrow is holy to me. Beauty exists, right here. Take a good look at that sparrow." Featured image and text are reproduced from Katy Grannan: The 99, available in our booth at Paris Photo. Grannan will sign copies of this exquisitely printed, oversized and slipcased two-volume set at our booth (C6) on Saturday, April 26 at 3PM. continue to blog
Drop by our booth (C6) at Paris Photo Los Angeles on Saturday, April 26 for book signings with Andy Freeberg and William Hunt, Charles Traub, Katy Grannan, Aaron Stern, Julian Wasser and Todd Hido.
FORMAT: Slip, Pbk, 2 vols, 12 x 15 in. / 160 pgs / 44 color / 26 b&w. LIST PRICE: U.S. $65.00 LIST PRICE: CANADA $87 GBP £57.00 ISBN: 9781881337386 PUBLISHER: Fraenkel Gallery AVAILABLE: 4/30/2014 DISTRIBUTION: D.A.P. RETAILER DISC: TRADE PUBLISHING STATUS: Out of stock indefinitely AVAILABILITY: Not available TERRITORY: WORLD
The result of three years of work in California's Central Valley, Katy Grannan's new series The 99 features large-scale color portraits and black-and-white photographs. Grannan's recent photographs are set in the parched landscape and forgotten towns along Highway 99, including Modesto, Fresno and Bakersfield. In her intensely vivid color portraits, the artist works at midday when the sun is direct and the heat is unrelenting, presenting each individual, often simultaneously heroic and vulnerable, against stark, white backgrounds. In the black-and-white photographs, many of her subjects re-appear on Modesto's South 9th Street and along the banks of the Tuolumne River. Everyday rituals, small interactions and moments of beauty on the fringes of society are depicted in detail, conferring significance to what is often overlooked. This large-format, two-volume, slipcased monograph gathers this series for the first time.
Katy Grannan (born 1969) has published three previous monographs: Model American, The Westerns and Boulevard. Her photographs are included in the collections of the Whitney Museum of American Art, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, the Guggenheim Museum, New York, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, among others. Grannan lives and works in Berkeley, CA.
