- Hardcover: 120 pages
- Publisher: Aperture (17 Oct 2005)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 1931788812
- ISBN-13: 978-1931788816
- Product Dimensions: 30 x 25.9 x 1.5 cm
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 359,958 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Katy Grannan's striking portraits capture the desire of her subjects to offer themselves up to the camera lens. Each of her well-known series - "Poughkeepsie Journal," "Dream America," and "Morning Call" - began with a simple ad placed by Grannan in local newspapers: "Art Models. Artist/Photographer (female) seeks people for portraits. No experience necessary. Leave msg." After an initial telephone conversation, Grannan travels to the caller's home. Photographing her models in their own surroundings, she pays meticulous attention to the elements of their domestic settings: wood paneling, patterned wall-paper, and other mundane but often telling details. The subjects choose to remain clothed, to model nude, or to pause somewhere in between, working with Grannan to arrive at the pose. Throughout Model American, the influence of portraiture from classical painting to fashion advertising can be sensed in the poses and gazes her models adopt. Evoking everyone from Ophelia to Cindy Crawford - some with more savvy than others - they express a collective sense of the do's and don'ts to be observed in presenting oneself to the camera.The resulting images reflect the intensity of the relationship between artist and model. With subjects centrally framed and directly facing the camera, each image resonates with the tension of a first encounter. In Grannan's series "Sugar Camp Road" and her most recent work, she moves the exercise outdoors, using a municipal park as the backdrop. Even though the parklands that serve as her set bring the private encounters of her earlier series into the public landscape, she maintains a delicate - yet charged - sense of intimacy.
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portraits of a high order, with some room to grow, 6 Aug 2006
By cody raymond - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Katy Grannan: Model American (Hardcover)
this work is excellent, but the switches in style and syntax, from black and white to color especially, makes the book as a whole a bit disjointed. the portraits are often brilliant, especially the color which seems to fit the voyeuristic, disposable nature of the poses and looks collaborated on by grannan and her subjects. it is an interesting work and destined to raise heated debate in photographic circles.
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beautiful photography, but too much nudity, 17 Feb 2011
By C. Soner "blkbrrry" - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Katy Grannan: Model American (Hardcover)
katy's photography is beautiful and haunting, but i would have loved to see less nudes and more portraits. her subjects are 'left of center', which i do love.
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