Curran Hatleberg: Difference between revisions

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|date=3 November 2014 |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=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?}}

 

== Teaching appointments and lectures ==

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> He has participated in numerous speaking engagements, including the 2019 Photographic Activities: A Salon at the Whitney.

 

== Awards ==