Katy Grannan
Anonymous, Los Angeles
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May 2, 05:08 PM GMT
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7,000 - 10,000 USD
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Katy Grannan
B. 1969
Anonymous, Los Angeles
archival pigment print, flush-mounted, framed to the photographer's specifications, 2009, printed in 2010, no. 2 in an edition of 3
image: 39 by 29 in. (99.1 by 73.7 cm.)
frame: 41½ by 31½ in. (105.4 by 80 cm.)
San Francisco, Pier 24 Photography, Looking Back: Ten Years of Pier 24 Photography, July 2019 – March 2022
‘It’s important that the photograph describes a particular subject, but it also has to speak to something much larger, so that the viewer has the sense of a shared history; they’re portraits of all of us.’
Katy Grannan
Katy Grannan’s breakout series Boulevard (2008-2010) marked the beginning of the photographer’s extended work in street portraiture. These photographs are spontaneous collaborations between Grannan and the “hustlers, strutters, addicts and beauty queens” she met on Hollywood sidewalks and in San Francisco’s Tenderloin District. Boulevard and her subsequent series, 99, unfold as an enormous procession of humanity – a dance macabre of the marginalized and powerless. Grannan uses the ubiquitous sun-bleached white walls of city buildings as an impromptu, decontextualized backdrop that emphasizes her sitters’ individuality and defies any preconceived assumption of “anonymity.”
Grannan and LA-based artist Charlie White were the subject in 2012 of The Sun and Other Stars, a two-person exhibition at The Los Angeles County Museum of Art, which included a comprehensive display of the Boulevard series. Her photographs were also featured in an exhibition at FOAM Fotografiemuseum Amsterdam in 2015.