Juxtapoz Magazine – Who is Michael Jang? A Conversation with the Master of the Long Game

Juxtapoz Magazine – Who is Michael Jang? A Conversation with the Master of the Long Game

Seeing Michael Jang’s work for the first time, you might assume he’s long been a fixture of the photography world. His work feels like it belongs alon…

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Seeing Michael Jangs work for the first time, you might assume hes long been a fixture of the photography world. His work feels like it belongs alongside some of the mediums greats, part of a lineage that includes such icons as Gary Winogrand and Lee Friedlander (both of whom Jang was inspired by while studying at The California Institute of the Arts in the 1970s). For nearly four decades after graduating from CalArts and later SFAI, Jang worked as a successful commercial portrait photographer in San Francisco, all the while amassing an archive of thousands of images, the majority of which nobody ever saw. In 2001, he submitted a portfolio of his work to San Franciscos Museum of Modern Art. The photographs immediately attracted the attention of curator Sandra Philips and soon found wider art world acclaim. Jangs work is now the subject of a new monograph from Atelier Éditions, Who Is Michael Jang?, and a major retrospective, “Michael Jangs California,” at The McEvoy Foundation for the Arts.