{"id":62138,"date":"2018-03-07T11:40:28","date_gmt":"2018-03-07T10:40:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/?p=62138"},"modified":"2018-03-07T11:40:28","modified_gmt":"2018-03-07T10:40:28","slug":"sleeks-guide-subculture-photographers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/de\/article\/sleeks-guide-subculture-photographers\/","title":{"rendered":"5 Subculture Photographers It's Time You Got Acquainted With"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\" Larry Clark, “Untitled, 1963”, from the series Tulsa, 1962 \u2013 1971. Image: Courtesy of the artist, Luhring Augustine, New York and Simon Lee Gallery, London<\/p>\n

In the early 1930s, German philosopher Walter Benjamin wrote an essay entitled \u201cA Short History of Photography,\u201d where he proposed that the medium of photography reveals the unconscious aspects of perception. The ability of the camera to make visible what the naked eye cannot becomes all the more powerful when it’s turned on those who exist at the fringes of society. Captured through a lens, people who’ve been marginalised, and often rendered invisible \u2014\u00a0whether based on race, gender, sexuality, class or ability \u2013 suddenly become seen.\u00a0<\/span>
\n\u201cAnother Kind of Life: Photography on the Margins<\/a>\u201d, currently showing at The Barbican, puts the spotlight firmly on such marginalised figures.\u00a0Bringing together over 300 photographic works from the 1950s to the present day, \u201cAnother Kind of Life\u201d not only catalogues subcultures, counter-cultures and minorities, but also makes apparent how attitudes have changed overtime in relation to gender, sexuality and the treatment of minority groups. <\/span><\/p>\n

\"\" Left: Paz Err\u00e1zuriz, “Evelyn, Santiago”. From the series “La Manzana de Ad\u00e1n (Adam\u2019s Apple)”, 1983. Image: Copyright of Paz Err\u00e1zuriz. Right: Philippe Chancel, “Untitled, 1982”, From the series “Rebel\u2019s Paris”, 1982. Image: Courtesy of Melanie Rio Fluency, France.<\/p>\n

Through vintage and contemporary prints, archival material, specialist magazines, rare film and photobooks, members of subcultures and countercultures take centre stage. These images ask nothing of their viewers, only to take their subjects as they are.<\/span>
\nThe global scope of the show is also refreshing; as well as established breeding grounds for counter-culture such as London and New York, “Another Kind of Life” showcases locales which are often themselves excluded from Western-centric narratives, including India, Chile and Nigeria. The range of photographers on display, too, is commendably varied; heavy-hitters such as Diane Arbus and Larry Clark are present, but so too are photographers whose own visibility and voices have been diminished. Here are five participating photographers whose work is as brilliant as it is frequently overlooked.<\/p>\n

Philippe Chancel<\/h2>\n

\"\" Philippe Chancel, “Untitled”, 1982. From the series “Rebel\u2019s Paris”, 1982. Image: Courtesy of Melanie Rio Fluency, France.<\/p>\n

Philippe Chancel\u2019s monochrome series \u201cRebel\u2019s Paris\u201d is a romantic record of another time, but also documents a forgotten political narrative. The images depict teenage rockabillies in early ’80s Paris, dancing and clubbing, and doing what teenagers do. However, the teenage rebels hailed from two rival city gangs, the Vikings and the Panthers, who, unlike the majority of Parisian subcultures of the time, hailed from ethnically diverse backgrounds. Later, they would be linked with the anti-fascist movement emerging amidst a rising backdrop of French nationalism.<\/span><\/p>\n

Katy Grannan<\/h2>\n

\"\" Katy Grannan, “Anonymous, Modesto, CA, 2010″. From the series The Ninety Nine”. “Anonymous, San Francisco, 2009”. From the series “Boulevard”. Images: Cpyright of Katy Grannan, courtesy the artist and Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco.<\/p>\n

In her series “The Ninety-Nine”, Katy Grannan revists the dry and desolate Californian landscape famously photographed by Dorothea Lange during the Great Depression. In her sun-drenched portraits, taken in the outsider towns along Highway 99, her subjects are pictured as heroic and vulnerable at the same time.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Igor Palmin<\/h2>\n

\"\" Igor Palmin, “Untitled XVI, Stavropol Krai, USSR, 1977”. From the series “The Enchanted Wanderer”, 1977. Image: Copyright of Igor Palmin<\/p>\n

Igor Palmin is one of the lesser known photographers partaking in the exhibition, but his work is no less impressive. His black and white images depict a little seen side of Russia: Soviet hippies in Summer of Love attire. Think bell-bottoms, headbands and patterned shirts casually tied at the waist \u2013 all against a barren, dusty landscape. His frequently cinematic photographs are an arresting snapshot into another time and world, one which is only made available to most through photography.<\/span><\/p>\n

The “Casa Susanna” Photographers<\/h2>\n

\"\" Casa Susanna Collection. Attributed to Andrea Susan (Susanna at Casa Susanna), 1964-1969. Casa Susanna Collection. Attributed to Andrea Susan (Christmas card from Gloria in a black dress), 1965. Images: Art Gallery of Ontario.<\/p>\n

Among the works being exhibited are a collection of photographs taken in the late ’50s at Casa Susanna, a transvestite retreat in the Catskills, New York. The photographs were found by chance at a flea market decades later and depict men dressed in homely full skirts, pearls and lipstick at dinner parties. The forgotten images present a minority group enjoying one another\u2019s company without fear of judgement, and serve as a reminder of the role that photography plays in allowing subjects to process their lived experiences. We may never know the identities of these photographers, but looking at the grace and tenderness embodied in this found work, it’s hard to argue they don’t deserve a place on this list, whoever they are.<\/span><\/p>\n

Paz Err\u00e1zuriz<\/h2>\n

\"\" Paz Err\u00e1zuriz, “Evelyn, La Palmera, Santiago”. From the series “La Manzana de Ad\u00e1n (Adam\u2019s Apple)”, 1983. Image: copyright of Paz Err\u00e1zuriz.<\/p>\n

The Chilean photographer Paz Err\u00e1zuriz used photography as a mode of political resistance under the brutal dictatorship of General Augusto Pinochet. Her photographs of transgender sex workers in the series \u201cAdam\u2019s Apple\u201d are startlingly beautiful: her subjects radiate a feminine mystery and glamour, all slinky slip dresses, eyeliner and jewellery, which compel the viewer to stop and pay attention. Err\u00e1zuriz\u2019s images illustrate the necessity of photography in times of persecution.
\nOf her extraordinary photographs, Err\u00e1zuriz has said: \u201cThey are topics that society doesn\u2019t look at, and my intention is to encourage people to dare to look\u201d. This could be a mantra for the exhibition as a whole, but on the condition that the subjects are not merely passively consumed by the camera. They use the lens for their own gain \u2013 as an instrument in confirming their identity, too. <\/span>
\n\u201cAnother Kind of Life: Photography on the Margins\u201d runs through to 27 May 2018 at the Barbican Art Gallery, Barbican Centre, London. <\/span><\/i><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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