Häftad, Engelska, 2027

American Bohemia

The Photographic Legacy of the Village Voice

Av Thomas McGovern, David Evans Frantz

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For more than half a century, the Village Voice served as America’s most influential alternative newspaper—a fearless chronicler of politics, culture, and everyday life in New York City. American Bohemia gathers the extraordinary photographs that helped define the paper’s visual identity and shaped how readers saw the city and themselves. Bringing together work by nearly fifty photographers, this richly illustrated volume captures the radical energy, artistic experimentation, and social upheaval that animated the Voice from the 1950s through the 1990s. From the pioneering street photography of Fred W. McDarrah to the evocative portraits and documentary images of Amy Arbus, James Hamilton, Coreen Simpson, Sylvia Plachy, and many others, these photographs chart the evolution of downtown culture and American counterculture alike. They document political protest, nightlife, performance, and the everyday drama of urban life, revealing how photography functioned not merely as illustration but as a central mode of storytelling within the Voice. Featuring newly commissioned essays and reflections by editors and contributors, including a catalog essay by Hilton Als, American Bohemia situates the Village Voice within a broader history of alternative journalism and visual culture. The book traces how its photographers expanded the possibilities of photojournalism and influenced generations of artists, writers, and readers. Published in conjunction with an exhibition at the California Museum of Photography, this volume offers a vivid portrait of New York during decades of artistic ferment and political change. It is both a tribute to the photographers who defined an era and a reminder of the enduring power of independent media to document and shape cultural life. Photographers: Michael Ackerman, Amy Arbus, Marc Asnin, Martin Benjamin, Bill Bernstein, Carrie Boretz, Chris Buck, Michel Delsol, Pamela Duffy, Deborah Feingold, Ricky Flores, Frank Fournier, Frank Franca, Andy Freeberg, Donna Gray, Lois Greenfield, Lori Grinker, Carol Halebian, James Hamilton, Meg Handler, Caroline Howard, Peter Hujar, Hiroyuki Ito, Mike Kamber, Kristine Larsen, David C. Lee, Laura Levine, Darren Lew, Andrew Lichtenstein, Adam Mastoon, Fred W. McDarrah, Catherine McGann, Thomas McGovern, Greg Miller, Steven Mark Needham, Danuta Otfinowski, Brian Palmer, Sandra-Lee Phipps, Keri Pickett, Sylvia Plachy, Allen Reuben, Linda Rosier, Steven Rubin, Nevin Shalit, Coreen Simpson, Ann Summa, Doug Vann, Harvey Wang, C. T. WempleEssays by: Thomas McGovern, David Evans Frantz and Hilton Als

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Utgivningsdatum: 2027-02-02
Mått: 216 x 279 x undefined mm
Format: Häftad
Språk: Engelska
Antal sidor: 192
Förlag: Fordham University Press
ISBN: 9781531514334

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Thomas McGovern (Edited By) Thomas McGovern is a photographer, writer, and educator based in Southern California. He is the author of Bearing Witness (to AIDS) (Visual AIDS and A.R.T. Press, 1999), Amazing Grace (Parker Publishing, 2010), Hard Boys Bad Girls (Schiffer Publishing, 2010), and Vital Signs (Heyday, 2013), with poet Juan Delgado. McGovern began his tenure at the Village Voice as an intern in 1988. He was a photographer at the paper from 1988 to 1995 and served as photo editor from 1992 to 1994, where he launched the Voice Photo Grant. From 2000 to 2022 he was professor of photography at California State University, San Bernardino, where he founded, edited, and published Dotphotozine. His images are in the collections of the International Center of Photography (ICP) and licensed by Getty Images.David Evans Frantz (Edited By) David Evans Frantz is a Los Angeles–based curator and scholar specializing in contemporary art and LGBTQ art history. He is executive director of the Claire Falkenstein Foundation and has held curatorial positions at the Palm Springs Art Museum, the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art, and ONE National Gay & Lesbian Archives at the USC Libraries. His recent curatorial projects include Millie Wilson: The Museum of Lesbian Dreams, Krannert Art Museum, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign (2024); Telling Them Apart: Eileen Cowin and Jonesy, California Museum of Photography, UCR ARTS (2024); and Teddy Sandoval and the Butch Gardens School of Art, co-curated with C. Ondine Chavoya, Independent Curators International (ICI), Vincent Price Art Museum, and Williams College Museum of Art (2023–26). Frantz is co-editor, alongside Christina Linden and Chris E. Vargas, of Trans Hirstory in 99 Objects (Hirmer, 2023), a landmark publication of the Museum of Trans Hirstory & Art (MOTHA).

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"Anyone interested in iconic photojournalism or a history of late-20th-century New York will find this volume invaluable. Unforgettable images from a renowned newspaper." – Kirkus Reviews "Voice photographers . . . believed in the urgency of the image, and I don’t think one of them. . . thought their pictures were lesser than language. Part of what made the Voice such a remarkable enterprise was the remarkable synthesis that existed on the page—a synthesis of words and pictures that not only made the Voice graphically strong, but set a model for what a politically and aesthetically unique document could look like, feel like." – Hilton Als "Buyer beware: You will find many memorable images in this Village Voice-based collection of photographs, but not a unifying style. Nonconformity was the hallmark of the late twentieth century’s most popular weekly. Although largely oriented toward the way things were in the New York metropolis, the Voice trusted that its readers welcomed even far-flung views that seemed relevant to cutting-edge lives—a salutary reminder of a bolder, freewheelin’ time." – Sally Stein "I spent formative years with the Village Voice. It was the voice I needed to hear, but much of its power was visual. Not just the written record of its time and place, it was the reliable, vivid, and all-seeing eye on the world its readers were both discovering and making week after week. Seeing so many of those remarkable photographs again doesn’t just revive that history. It confirms its great, unruly power." – Vince Aletti "At one point in the 1990s, a photo editor suggested I run a picture of Meryl Streep in my column. ‘But the column’s about Glenn Close,’ I replied, dumbfounded. ‘Yeah,’ she said, ‘but we have a much better photo of Meryl.’ I laughed my guts out, while appreciating the importance the Voice placed on good photography. The image was everything—especially as the paper captured the best in celebrities, rioters, heroin addicts, voguers, and club kids. This book is a powerful document of the Voice’s stunning portraiture of NYC." – Michael Musto

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