ARTIST:

Katy Grannan

Anonymous, Los Angeles, Boulevard 9
Katy Grannan
Anonymous, Los Angeles, Boulevard 9
Katy Grannan
Anonymous, Los Angeles, Boulevard 24
Katy Grannan
Anonymous, Los Angeles, Boulevard 6
Katy Grannan
Anonymous, Los Angeles, Boulevard 13
Katy Grannan
Anonymous, San Francisco, Boulevard 15
Katy Grannan
Anonymous, San Francisco, Boulevard 15
Katy Grannan
Katy Grannan considers her pictures to be portraits. If they are, why title them all ’anonymous’? Part of the answer lies in the fact that they have all agreed to be photographed; she has tipped her hand, relinquishing the power of the candid shot of the street photographer for a risky collaborative portrait session.This might have given guarded results, but happily the complicity has produced images of raw power.
While not denying the label ’portraits’, I question the designation because it doesn’t quite do justice to the pictures. They are really not so much about individuals as about the range of prideful individuality among human beings, and their common fate, symbolized, I think, by that ubiquitous white wall. Grannan accepts that each person has a rich history, with its victories and defeats, which a single image can only hint at, but it’s the sum total of her portraits that gives this work its power. Caught in the blinding glare of the California sun, restless and worn yet often possessed of fierce pride, the figures stand, shift, turn, look away – resigned to the next throw of the dice while not holding out much hope that it will go their way.

Text by William A Ewing
Anonymous, Los Angeles, Boulevard 6
Katy Grannan
Anonymous, Los Angeles, Boulevard 6
Katy Grannan
Anonymous, San Francisco, Boulevard 22
Katy Grannan
Anonymous, San Francisco, Boulevard 22
Katy Grannan
Anonymous, Los Angeles, Boulevard 13
Katy Grannan
Anonymous, Los Angeles, Boulevard 13
Katy Grannan
Anonymous, Los Angeles, Boulevard 19
Katy Grannan
Anonymous, Los Angeles, Boulevard 19
Katy Grannan
Anonymous, San Francisco, Boulevard 31
Katy Grannan
Anonymous, Los Angeles, Boulevard 24
Katy Grannan
Anonymous, Los Angeles, Boulevard 24
Katy Grannan
Anonymous, San Francisco, Boulevard 31
Katy Grannan
Anonymous, San Francisco, Boulevard 31
Katy Grannan
Anonymous, San Francisco, Boulevard 4
Katy Grannan
Anonymous, San Francisco, Boulevard 4
Katy Grannan
Anonymous, San Francisco, Boulevard 3
Katy Grannan
Anonymous, San Francisco, Boulevard 3
Katy Grannan
Anonymous, Los Angeles, Boulevard 12
Katy Grannan
Anonymous, Los Angeles, Boulevard 12
Katy Grannan
Anonymous, San Francisco, 2010
Katy Grannan
Anonymous, San Francisco, 2010
Katy Grannan
Anonymous, San Francisco, Boulevard 1
Katy Grannan
Anonymous, San Francisco, Boulevard 1
Katy Grannan
Anonymous, Los Angeles, Boulevard 27
Katy Grannan
Anonymous, Los Angeles, Boulevard 19
Katy Grannan
Anonymous, San Francisco, Boulevard 4
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Anonymous, San Francisco, Boulevard 5
Katy Grannan
Anonymous, San Francisco, Boulevard 3
Katy Grannan
Anonymous, Los Angeles, Boulevard 11
Katy Grannan
Anonymous, Los Angeles, Boulevard 12
Katy Grannan
Anoymous, San Francisco, Boulevard 40
Katy Grannan
Anonymous, San Francisco, Boulevard 20
Katy Grannan
Anonymous, San Francisco, Boulevard 1
Katy Grannan
Anonymous, San Francisco, Boulevard 66
Katy Grannan
Anonymous, San Francisco, Boulevard 15
Katy Grannan
Anonymous, San Francisco, Boulevard 22
Katy Grannan
Anonymous, Los Angeles, Boulevard 26
Katy Grannan
Anonymous, Los Angeles, Boulevard 9
Katy Grannan
Anonymous, Los Angeles, Boulevard 74
Katy Grannan
Anonymous, San Francisco, Boulevard 20
Katy Grannan
Anonymous, San Francisco, Boulevard 20
Katy Grannan
Anonymous, San Francisco, Boulevard 40
Katy Grannan
Anonymous, San Francisco, Boulevard 40
Katy Grannan
Anonymous, San Francisco, Boulevard 66
Katy Grannan
Anonymous, San Francisco, Boulevard 66
Katy Grannan
Anonymous, San Francisco, Boulevard 5
Katy Grannan
Anonymous, San Francisco, Boulevard 5
Katy Grannan
Anonymous, Los Angeles, Boulevard 11
Katy Grannan
Anonymous, Los Angeles, Boulevard 11
Katy Grannan
Anonymous, Los Angeles, Boulevard 26
Katy Grannan
Anonymous, Los Angeles, Boulevard 26
Katy Grannan
Anonymous, Los Angeles, Boulevard 74
Katy Grannan
Anonymous, Los Angeles, Boulevard 74
Katy Grannan
Anonymous, Los Angeles, Boulevard 27
Katy Grannan
Anonymous, Los Angeles, Boulevard 27
Katy Grannan
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