Dan Lenchner: A Photographic History – LENSCRATCH

Over the past thirty-five years, photographer Dan Lenchner has taught comparative literature, ran a catering business in New York, built an expansive collection of vernacular photographs, and made thousands of pictures around the globe. Today, Dan finally finds time to think about what to do with his photos created during his decades of international travels. Part of me was envious that Dan had years of religiously making pictures without the worry and time-consuming effort of marketing himself and entering every call for entry. I immediately thought about Vivian Maier and Gary Winogrand, who left thousands of pictures and undeveloped rolls of film behind after their passing. The joy photographers like these and like Dan Lenchner experience is obviously in picture-making and not the act of hanging photographs on gallery walls.