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'''Curran Hatleberg''' is an American photographer.<ref name=":0">{{cite magazine |last1=Jacobs |first1=Gideon |title=Florida's Shadow Country |url=https://www.newyorker.com/culture/photo-booth/floridas-shadow-country |access-date=6 March 2019 |magazine=[[The New Yorker]] |date=27 March 2016}}</ref> He attended [[Yale University]] and graduated in 2010 with an MFA.<ref>{{cite news |title=School of Art alumni and faculty members selected for 2019 Whitney Biennial in NYC |url=https://news.yale.edu/2019/03/04/school-art-alumni-and-faculty-members-selected-2019-whitney-biennial |access-date=6 March 2019 |publisher=Yale University |date=4 March 2019}}</ref> Influenced by the American tradition of road photography,<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.artsbma.org/interview-with-photographer-curran-hatleberg/|title=Interview with Photographer Curran Hatleberg|website=Birmingham Museum of Art}}</ref> Hatleberg's process entails driving throughout the United States and interacting with various strangers in different locales. His work was recently included in the [[Whitney Biennial]] 2019.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.artforum.com/news/2019-whitney-biennial-announces-participating-artists-78779|title=2019 Whitney Biennial Announces Participating Artists|website=www.artforum.com|language=en-US|access-date=2020-04-13}}</ref>

 

While speaking about his practice Hatleberg explained, "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."<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> Driving is an integral element to how Hatleberg creates his work and he frequently discusses this when asked about his photographic practice, "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."<ref name=":2">{{Cite book|last=Wolf|first=Sasha|title=Photo Work : Forty Photographers on Process and Practice|publisher=Aperture Foundation|year=2019}}</ref>

 

According to the artist, 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>{{Cite web|url=https://www.artsbma.org/interview-with-photographer-curran-hatleberg/|title=Interview with Photographer Curran Hatleberg|website=www.artsbma.org|access-date=2020-04-11}}</ref> 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=R|first1=Bryson|last2=October 4|first2=on|date=2013-10-04|website=Feature Shoot|language=en-US|access-date=2020-04-11|last3=2013}}</ref>

 

- ''The Heart is a Lonely Hunter''. June 4, 2015 – August 22, 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>

 

 

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=== Publications ===

Hatleberg's work has been published by ''[[The New Yorker]]'',<ref name=":0" /> [[The New York Times Magazine]],<ref>{{Cite news|last=Chafets|first=Zev|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/31/magazine/stinger-james-okeefes-greatest-hits.html|title=Stinger: James O'Keefe's Greatest Hits|date=2011-07-27|work=The New York Times|access-date=2020-04-11|language=en-US|issn=0362-4331}}</ref> [[Vice (magazine)|Vice]],<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/wd4n4y/mossless-in-america-curran-hatleberg|title=Mossless in America: Curran Hatleberg|last=Mossless|date=2014-01-20|website=Vice|language=en|access-date=2020-04-11}}</ref> ''[[The Paris Review]]'',<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2016/12/09/105697/|title=Staff Picks: Tests, Tongues, Tinfoil Orbs|last=Review|first=The Paris|date=2016-12-09|website=The Paris Review|language=en|access-date=2020-04-11}}</ref> and Mossless Magazine.

 

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|language=en-US|access-date=2020-04-13}}</ref> He has participated in numerous speaking engagements, including the [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yQZqW6cdKK8 2019 Photographic Activities: A Salon at the Whitney].