CORY REYNOLDS | DATE 9/27/2019

Michael Jang sees it all

"Chris with Bag" (1973) is reproduced from Who Is Michael Jang?, the first major monograph on this influential yet previously-little-known San Francisco photographer whose work is on view at McEvoy Foundation through January, 2020. "Jang has the rare ability not only to capture a moment in time but to insert himself in a moment that could only be documented from the inside," Erik Kessels writes. "Jang is that proverbial fly on the wall, watching. He sees it all—the ordinary, the bizarre, the mundane, the odd, the funny, the memorable and the forgettable—capturing these moments in images most photographers wouldn't have wasted their film on."