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Who Is Michael Jang?

Contributed by Adrien Menard on Feb 1st, 2020. Artwork published in .
Who Is Michael Jang? 1
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From publisher Atelier Éditions:

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). 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. The artist’s first major monograph, Who Is Michael Jang?, introduced by long-time collaborator and SFMoMA curator emerita of photography, Sandra S. Phillips, offers readers an eagerly anticipated examination of Jang’s truly idiosyncratic oeuvre.

For the book typography, Capucine Labarthe picked Continua by edition.studio and Mabry by Colophon.

Who Is Michael Jang? 2
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Who Is Michael Jang? 3
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Who Is Michael Jang? 4
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Who Is Michael Jang? 5
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Who Is Michael Jang? 6
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