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Background information
"Michael JANG spent nearly four decades working as a successful commercial portrait photographer. Unbeknown to the world, however, he was assembling a vast archive of thousands of remarkable images, authoring several now-iconic series: 'The Jangs' (1973), 'Beverly Hilton' (1973), 'San Francisco' (1973–1987), 'Summer Weather' (1983), 'College' (1972–1973), 'Punks & Poets' (1978–1980), and 'Garage Band' (2001). Michael JANG revealed nothing of that vast archive for almost 40 years until 2001, when he submitted a number of images for consideration to San Francisco’s Museum of Modern Art. His work attracted immediate acclaim, and for the past fifteen years he has revealed those images in a series of national and international exhibitions and books.
Content
The photographer's first major monograph, 'Who Is Michael Jang?'highlights Michael JANG's most important bodies of work. Introduced by his longtime collaborator and SFMOMA curator emerita of photography, Sandra Phillips, this volume offers readers a long-overdue introduction to Jang's incredible images.
"Who is Michael Jang? I don’t know if
he’s a hipster or a nerd, a conceptual genius or instinctual savant. All
I know is that he takes some of best pictures I’ve ever seen." (© Alec
SOTH)
Additional information
This photo volume, 'Who is Michael Jang?', was awarded with the Lucie Photo Book Award 2021 in the category 'Independent'.