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| birth_name = Curran Hatleberg
| birth_date = 1982
| birth_place = Washington D.C.
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| nationality = American
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| training = Yale University, MFA Photography
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| awards = 2015 Magnum Emergency Fund Grant, 2014 Aaron Siskind Foundation Individual Photographer's Fellowship Grant, 2010 Richard Benson Prize for Excellence in Photography
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'''Curran Hatleberg''' is an American photographer.<ref name=":0">{{cite magazine |last1=Jacobs |first1=Gideon |title=
== Work ==
While speaking about his practice Hatleberg explained,<ref name=":1">{{Cite web|url=https://hcponline.org/spot/traveling-through-the-dark/|title=Traveling Through the Dark {{!}} Houston Center for Photography|last=Brooks|first=Ashley|date=2018-09-24|website=hcponline.org|language=en-US|access-date=2020-04-11}}</ref> {{blockquote|I feel a specific devotion to the unknown. It's a kind of worship. When I stumble into the right person and place and feeling, I want to go all the way in and let it wash over me. In those rare moments, the world is so overwhelmingly generous; everything feels imbued with reverence and wonder.}} Driving is an integral element to how Hatleberg creates his work and he frequently discusses this when asked about his photographic practice,<ref name=":2">{{Cite book|last=Wolf|first=Sasha|title=Photo Work : Forty Photographers on Process and Practice|publisher=Aperture Foundation|year=2019}}</ref> {{blockquote|When I was a child, the only way my parents could get me to fall asleep was to put me in the car and drive around the block. Maybe it was the sound of tires on cement, or the rush of the wind pouring in that sedated me. Perhaps this is an origin story, why my work is still so much about driving.}}
In a published conversation with fellow photographer Matthew Genitempo, Hatleberg noted that<ref name=":1" /> {{blockquote|Chance and accident are the foundation of my entire practice. I start out with a vague notion, aiming towards a region I'm interested in, then wait until something feels right. It's purely visceral. I like driving long distances, looking around, making it up as I go. It's a loose approach that favors intuitive thinking over analytical design. Then, when I finally find a place, there's no mistaking it; there's an undeniable atmospheric weight. I can feel it come over me. A place that's a sure thing will almost feel like a stage.}}
According to Hatleberg, his photographs are intended to function as "a fiction that is more real than reality."<ref name=":2" /> Hatleberg's roadtrips are lengthy and his editing process doesn't occur until later on - "I don't look over anything until I've shot hundreds of rolls."<ref name=":2" />
During an interview with the [[Birmingham Museum of Art]] Hatleberg articulated that he identifies most with "an American tradition of photography—from [[Walker Evans]] to [[William Eggleston]]. They are my heroes, but it's undoubtedly a different time. I think it's essential to take from tradition without being bound to it—to author one's own time."<ref name="artsbma"/> In 2015, Jordan Teicher wrote in Photograph,"Hatleberg's photos succeed as [[Social documentary photography|social documentary]], but to see them only that way ignores their freewheeling poetry, and their lack of any sort of useable, concrete information."<ref name="Curran Hatleberg, Higher Pictures">{{Cite web|url=http://photographmag.com/reviews/curran-hatleberg-higher-pictures/|title=Curran Hatleberg, Higher Pictures|date=2016-05-27|website=Photograph Magazine|access-date=2020-04-11}}</ref> Hatleberg has also discussed [[fiction writing]] as an influence on his work, "After reading, everyone you pass on the street becomes fascinating or mysterious; the scenery shifts and everything seems infused with potent meaning."<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.featureshoot.com/2013/10/curran-hatlebergs-intimate-photos-of-strangers-met-on-road-trips-across-america/|title=Curran Hatleberg's Intimate Photos of Strangers Met on Road Trips Across America|last1=Rand|first1=Bryson|date=2013-10-04|website=Feature Shoot|language=en-US|access-date=2020-04-11}}</ref>
In 2015, TBW Books published Hatleberg's first monograph, ''Lost Coast''. Throughout the series,<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.tbwbooks.com/products/lost-coast|title=Lost Coast - Sold Out|website=TBWBooks|language=en|access-date=2020-04-11}}</ref> {{blockquote|Hatleberg presents an episodic narrative about [[Eureka, California]]. Intimate portraits of town and people function like a collection of short stories, building to an understanding of place. The pictures live between extremes, between the grand and the granular, between the breathtaking natural landscape and the grim realities of industrial decline.}} Hatleberg spoke of the project and explained that<ref name=":1" /> {{blockquote|when making Lost Coast, I attempted to make pictures that communicated more what my own personal experience of that place felt like, not what the place is really like. For me, the work is more like a dream I had about a real place than a depiction of reality. There's this incredible hubris in to trying to portray a place or a person. How can a photographer ever possibly represent a unique region, lifestyle, or person within a few pictures?}}
In 2022, TBW Books published Hatleberg's second monograph, ''River's Dream''. The work was shot between 2010 and 2020 in the American South. With 65 pictures, "Hatleberg centers his narrative on the dog days of summer. Sweltering heat, dripping humidity, lush vegetation, and screaming insects". The book includes essays by [[Natasha Trethewey]] and [[Joy Williams (American writer)|Joy Williams]]. <ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.tbwbooks.com/products/rivers-dream|title=River's Dream - First Priting - Red|website=TBWBooks|language=en|access-date=2022-06-09}}</ref>
== Teaching appointments ==
Hatleberg has taught photography at [[Yale University]], [[Cooper Union]], and the [[International Center of Photography]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://oracle.newpaltz.edu/a-journey-of-photographs/|title=A Journey Of Photographs – The New Paltz Oracle|last=Pinka|first=Amya|date=12 March 2015 |language=en-US|access-date=2020-04-13}}</ref>
== Exhibitions ==
*''The Heart is a Lonely Hunter'', June 2015 – August 2015, [[Fraenkel Gallery]]. San Francisco, CA<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://fraenkelgallery.com/exhibitions/the-heart-is-a-lonely-hunter-curated-by-katy-grannan|title=The Heart is a Lonely Hunter: Curated by Katy Grannan|website=Fraenkel Gallery|language=en-US|access-date=2020-04-11}}</ref>
*''Curran Hatleberg'', May – June 2016. Higher Pictures, New York, NY<ref name="Curran Hatleberg, Higher Pictures"/>
*''The Half-Life of Love'', May 2017 – March 2018, [[Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art|MASS MoCA]], North Adams, MA<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://massmoca.org/event/the-half-life-of-love/|title=The Half-Life of Love|website=MASS MoCA|date=21 March 2017 |language=en-US|access-date=2020-04-11}}</ref>
=== Whitney Biennial 2019 ===
Hatleberg's work was featured in the [[2019 Whitney Biennial]]. The curatorial statement by [[Rujeko Hockley]] and [[Jane Panetta]] details, "Much of the art that we selected for the 2019 Biennial was steeped in socio-political concerns - an engagement important to us as curators - while at the same time remaining open ended and hopeful."<ref>{{Cite book|last=Panetta, Jane, Rujeko Hockley, and Ramsay Kolber|title=Whitney Biennial 2019|publisher=Whitney Museum of American Art|year=2019}}</ref> [[PBS NewsHour|PBS Newshour]] reported "In a deeply divided America, the artists chosen by curators Panetta and Hockley exhibit a quieter tone than in the past. " <ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/what-this-years-whitney-biennial-says-about-contemporary-american-art|title=What this year's Whitney Biennial says about contemporary American art|date=2019-06-28|website=PBS NewsHour|language=en-us|access-date=2020-04-13}}</ref>
== Publications ==
*''Lost Coast'' (TBW, 2015)<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2016/12/09/105697/|title=Staff Picks: Tests, Tongues, Tinfoil Orbs|date=2016-12-09|website=The Paris Review|language=en|access-date=2020-04-11}}</ref>
*''Somewhere Someone''. Hassla, 2017. With [[Cynthia Daignault]]. {{ISBN|978-1-940881-21-8}}. Edition of 500 copies.
*''Double Rainbow''. Self-published, 2021. Edition of 200 copies.
*''River's Dream'' (TBW, 2022)
== Awards ==
*2014: [[Aaron Siskind]] Foundation Individual Photographer's Fellowship Grant
*2015: [[Magnum Photos|Magnum]] Emergency Fund<ref>{{Cite magazine|last=Bicker|first=Phil|title=Time Exclusive: Magnum Emergency Fund Announces 2015 Grantees|magazine=TIME}}</ref>
*Richard Benson Prize for Excellence in Photography<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://fraenkelgallery.com/artists/curran-hatleberg|title=Curran Hatleberg|website=Fraenkel Gallery|language=en-US|access-date=2020-04-11}}</ref>
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[[Category:21st-century American photographers]]
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