Michael Jang spent nearly four decades working as a successful commercial portrait photographer. Un- beknown to the world, however, he w ssembling vast archive of thousands of remarkable images, authoring several now-iconic series : The Jangs (1973), Beverly Hilton (1973). San Francisco (1973-1987). Sumer Weather (1983), College (1972-1973), Punks & Poets (1978-1980), and Garage Band (2001). Jang revealed nothing of that vast archive for almost 40 years until 2001.
when he submitted a number of images for consideration to San Francisco's Museum of Modem Art. His work attracted immediate acclaim, and for the past fifteen years he has revealed those images in a series of national and international exhibitions and books. The artist's first major monograph, Who is Michael Jong ? , introduced by long-time collaborator and SFMoMA curator emerita of photography, Sandra S.
Phillips, offers readers an eagerly anticipated examination of Jang's truly idiosyncratic oeuvre.
Michael Jang spent nearly four decades working as a successful commercial portrait photographer. Un- beknown to the world, however, he w ssembling vast archive of thousands of remarkable images, authoring several now-iconic series : The Jangs (1973), Beverly Hilton (1973). San Francisco (1973-1987). Sumer Weather (1983), College (1972-1973), Punks & Poets (1978-1980), and Garage Band (2001). Jang revealed nothing of that vast archive for almost 40 years until 2001.
when he submitted a number of images for consideration to San Francisco's Museum of Modem Art. His work attracted immediate acclaim, and for the past fifteen years he has revealed those images in a series of national and international exhibitions and books. The artist's first major monograph, Who is Michael Jong ? , introduced by long-time collaborator and SFMoMA curator emerita of photography, Sandra S.
Phillips, offers readers an eagerly anticipated examination of Jang's truly idiosyncratic oeuvre.