Yvette Coronado submits Katy Grannan

Katy Grannan's work can be described as part portrait and part documentary photography. I find her work to be truly fasinating in technique and in substance. Her style seems fashioned after Diane Arbus and Nan Goldin, in that her work is honest and also eerie. In her early series, Grannan found her subjects through classified ads in local Northeastern newspapers that read," Art models. Artist/photographer(female) seeks people for portraits. No experience necessary. Leave msg." This is how Grannan complied the series in which the photo above was taken, The Poughkeepsie Journal (1998-99). Her subjects posed how they wished and in their own homes. Through these non-professional models, Grannan captures the sense of secrecy and desire not found in average portraits. Today Grannan lives and works outside San Fransisco, California.
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