Katy Grannan
(American, born 1969)
Biography
Katy Grannan is a contemporary American photographer best known for her intimate portraits of strangers. Grannan’s work is informed by memories of her own childhood as well as the photographic tradition of Diane Arbus. “I have a terror of things being nice and knowing what to expect,” she has explained. “Making a photograph is a license to have experiences that I would not otherwise have.” Born in 1969 in Arlington, MA, she received studied at both the University of Pennsylvania and Harvard University, before going on to receive an MFA in photography from the Yale School of Art in 1999. Beginning in the early 2000s, Grannan began posting wanted advertisements in newspapers looking for models to photograph around small towns such as Poughkeepsie, NY. With her models nude and provocatively posed, either in the open air or their homes, Grannan’s photos explore voyeurism, desire, and secrecy. In 2005, her book Model American was published by the Aperture Foundation, it features a collection of her better known series in the same volume. The artist currently lives and works in Berkeley, CA. Today, Grannan’s works are held in the collections of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, among others.
Katy Grannan Artworks
Katy Grannan
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.jpg "Shana, Mystic Lake, Medford, MA (Sugar Camp..., 2002")
.jpg "Untitled (From the Poughkeepsie Journal), 1999")
,-presidio.jpg "Nicky, (U.S.M.C.), Presidio, 2005")
.jpg "Film Still No. 12 (Fingers), 2015")
.jpg "Film Still No. 15 (Bathing), 2015")
.jpg "Nicole, Crissy Field Parking Lot (II), 2006")
.jpg "Untitled, (from The Poughkeepsie Journal), 1998–2000")
Katy Grannan
Untitled, (from The Poughkeepsie Journal), 1998–2000
Sale Date: April 30, 2024
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