Jon Pack

Last updated

Jon Pack is an American photographer based in New York City. Pack is known as a photojournalist and street photographer, and for his work as an on-location still photographer for film and television productions.

Contents

Career

While watching the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, Pack became interested in the afterlife of the venues constructed for the Olympic Games. He told CNN, "All the coverage was talking about how much money was being spent on the Olympics in Beijing. It was so surprising that instead of talking about the athletes or the sports, they were talking so much about the facilities and amount of money." [1] Pack began traveling to host cities to photograph former Olympic venues in Autumn, 2008. [2] "I want to see what hosting the Olympics does to a city," Pack said in an interview with The Atlantic . "Both the good and the bad: how it instills a sense of national pride, how it can help a city find incredible new ways to use its own space, how it can be completely overshadowed by events like war or economic collapse, and how it can create modern day ruins in the midst of places that are otherwise bustling." [3]

In 2012, Pack began collaborating with filmmaker Gary Hustwit and announced The Olympic City, a documentary photography project that would look at former host cities of the Olympic Games and how the events had impacted those cities. [4] The first phase of the project looked at 13 cities, the resulting photographs were published in a hardcover book in 2013. [5] The photos were also shown at museums and galleries including Storefront for Art and Architecture in New York, [6] the Atlanta Contemporary Art Center, [7] and the Brooklyn Museum of Art 2016 exhibit "Who Shot Sports?". [8] Hustwit and Pack have stated that this is an ongoing project and that they are continuing to photograph additional cities around the world. [9]

On November 13, 2015, Pack was in Paris during the terrorist attacks, and took photos of the aftermath. [10]

In 2020, Pack collaborated with writer Mathias Svalina on The Depression, a book of poetry and photographs described as "a surreal and shifting deep-dive into clinical depression". [11]

Pack has been active as a still photographer for film and television, shooting on-location photos for film including While We're Young , directed by Noah Baumbach, Hearts Beat Loud , directed by Brett Haley, and the television series Search Party and Broad City . [12]

Publications

Related Research Articles

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Dorothea Lange</span> American photojournalist (1895–1965)

Dorothea Lange was an American documentary photographer and photojournalist, best known for her Depression-era work for the Farm Security Administration (FSA). Lange's photographs influenced the development of documentary photography and humanized the consequences of the Great Depression.

<i>Urbanized</i> 2011 American film

Urbanized is a documentary film directed by Gary Hustwit and released on 26 October 2011. It is considered the third of a three-part series on design known as the Design Trilogy; the first being Helvetica, about the typeface, and the second being Objectified, about industrial design. The documentary discusses how cities are designed, and it features interviews with urban planners and architects, such as Oscar Niemeyer and Jan Gehl.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Walker Evans</span> American photographer and photojournalist (1903-1975)

Walker Evans was an American photographer and photojournalist best known for his work for the Farm Security Administration (FSA) documenting the effects of the Great Depression. Much of Evans' work from the FSA period uses the large format, 8×10-inch (200×250 mm) view camera. He said that his goal as a photographer was to make pictures that are "literate, authoritative, transcendent".

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Andres Serrano</span> American photographer and artist

Andres Serrano is an American photographer and artist. His work, often considered transgressive art, includes photos of corpses and uses feces and bodily fluids. His Piss Christ (1987) is a red-tinged photograph of a crucifix submerged in a glass container of what was purported to be the artist's own urine. He also created the artwork for the heavy metal band Metallica's Load and Reload albums.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Arnold Genthe</span> German-American photographer

Arnold Genthe was a German-American photographer, best known for his photographs of San Francisco's Chinatown, the 1906 San Francisco earthquake, and his portraits of noted people, from politicians and socialites to literary figures and entertainment celebrities.

Seydou Keïta was a Malian photographer known for his portraits of people and families he took at his portrait photography studio in Mali's capital, Bamako, in the 1950s. His photographs are widely acknowledged not only as a record of Malian society but also as pieces of art.

Storefront for Art and Architecture is an independent, non-profit art and architecture organization located in SoHo, Manhattan in New York City. The organization is committed to the advancement of innovative positions in architecture, art and design.

Hollywood Professional School was a private school in Hollywood, California. Initially established as a music conservatory by pianist Gladys T. Littell in 1921 under the name Hollywood Conservatory of Music and Arts, the school quickly expanded its offerings into theater and dance as well as music. In 1929 the Hollywood Professional School (HPS) was established by Viola Foss Lawler as a companion private school to the conservatory, with both schools operating legally as a single institution under the Hollywood Conservatory of Music and Arts name. In 1944 the school was purchased by Bertha Keller Mann and it ceased teaching the arts and became solely a private school teaching traditional academic subjects in grades K-12 to mostly children working in the entertainment business or competitive athletics in Los Angeles. Many famous individuals attended the school including John Drew Barrymore, Gloria DeHaven, Annette Funicello, Judy Garland, Betty Grable, Melanie Griffith,Debra Paget, Val Kilmer, Peggy Lipton, Ann Miller, Mickey Rooney, and Natalie Wood.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Lorna Simpson</span> American photographer and multimedia artist

Lorna Simpson is an American photographer and multimedia artist whose works have been exhibited both nationally and internationally. In 1990, she became the first African-American woman to exhibit at the Venice Biennale. She came to prominence in the 1980s and 1990s with photo-text installations such as Guarded Conditions and Square Deal that questioned the nature of identity, gender, race, history and representation. Simpson continues to explore these themes in relation to memory and history using photography, film, video, painting, drawing, audio, and sculpture.

Michael Kimmelman is the architecture critic for The New York Times and has written about public housing and homelessness, public space, landscape architecture, community development and equity, infrastructure and urban design. He has reported from more than 40 countries and twice been a Pulitzer Prize finalist, most recently in 2018 for his series on climate change and global cities. In March 2014, he was awarded the Brendan Gill Prize for his "insightful candor and continuous scrutiny of New York's architectural environment" that is "journalism at its finest."

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Jerry Avenaim</span> American photographer

Jerry Avenaim is an American photographer best known for his fashion and celebrity images.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Gary Mark Smith</span> American street photographer (born 1956)

Gary Mark Smith is an American street photographer. Smith is noted for his pioneering global range and his empathetic and literal style of photography sometimes captured in extremely hazardous circumstances.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Ed Westcott</span> American photographer (1922–2019)

James Edward Westcott was an American photographer who was noted for his work with the United States government in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, during the Manhattan Project and the Cold War.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Gary Hustwit</span> American independent filmmaker and photographer

Gary Hustwit is an American independent filmmaker and photographer. He is best known for his design documentaries, which examine the impact of trends in graphic design, typography, industrial design, architecture, and urban planning. He told Dwell magazine, "I like the idea of taking a closer look at the things we take for granted and changing the way people think about them." In addition to filmmaking, he has been active in the independent music and book publishing industries.

Mathias Svalina, is an American poet. He has won fellowships and awards from The Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, The Iowa Review, and New Michigan Press. His poems have been published in journals such as American Letters & Commentary, The Boston Review, Gulf Coast, and jubilat. He operates a Dream Delivery Service and also co-edits Octopus Magazine and Octopus Books with Zachary Schomburg. He is a native of Chicago, Illinois.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Jon Naar</span> American photographer

Jon Naar was an English-American author and photographer celebrated for his pioneering images of New York City graffiti in the 1970s, and for portraits of Andy Warhol and other celebrities, including the British Prime Minister. Active through his late nineties, Naar had a multifaceted career as an intelligence officer in World War II; a globe-trotting marketing executive during the postwar years; and an environmentalist, with 12 published books to his credit.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Linda Lindroth</span> American artist and writer (born 1946)

Linda Lindroth is an American artist, photographer, writer, curator and educator.

Matika Lorraine Wilbur, whose indigenous name is Tsa-Tsiq, meaning "She Who Teaches," is a Swinomish and Tulalip photographer and educator from Washington state. She is best known for her photography project, Project 562.

James and Karla Murray are American photographers. The husband and wife duo have photographed storefronts of small businesses in New York City and elsewhere. They have also constructed a sculptural installation based on their photographic work.

Eva Franch i Gilabert is a Catalan architect, curator, critic and educator based in New York City who works in the fields of contemporary art, architecture, and public space. From 2010 to 2018, she was executive director and chief curator of Storefront for Art and Architecture in New York. From 2018 to 2020, Franch was director of the Architectural Association School of Architecture in London. She is currently a visiting lecturer at Princeton University.

References

  1. ↑ "Remnants of glory in former Olympic cities". CNN. Retrieved August 13, 2020.
  2. ↑ "The Impact and Legacy of the Olympics on Host Cities". Time Magazine. Retrieved August 13, 2020.
  3. ↑ "What Happens to Places That Were 'the Center of the World for Two Weeks'?". The Atlantic. Retrieved August 13, 2020.
  4. ↑ "Gary Hustwit On The Fate Of The Olympic City, After The Games End". Fast Company. Retrieved August 10, 2020.
  5. ↑ The Olympic City. ISBN   978-0989532105 . Retrieved August 10, 2020.{{cite book}}: |work= ignored (help)
  6. ↑ ""The Post-Olympic City"". Storefront for Art and Architecture. Retrieved August 10, 2020.
  7. ↑ "The Olympic City". Atlanta Contemporary. Retrieved August 10, 2020.
  8. ↑ "Who Shot Sports: A Photographic History, 1843 to the Present". Brooklyn Museum. Retrieved August 10, 2020.
  9. ↑ "About the Project". olympiccityproject.com. Retrieved August 10, 2020.
  10. ↑ "Paris Under Attack: Shootings, Bombings Rock the City With Dozens Dead". Conde Nast Traveler. Retrieved August 11, 2020.
  11. ↑ The Depression. ISBN   978-1951628024 . Retrieved August 11, 2020.{{cite book}}: |work= ignored (help)
  12. ↑ "Jon Pack IMDB page". IMDB.com. Retrieved August 11, 2020.
  13. ↑ The Olympic City. ISBN   978-0989532105 . Retrieved August 10, 2020.{{cite book}}: |work= ignored (help)
  14. ↑ "Aftermath". Victory Journal. Retrieved August 11, 2020.
  15. ↑ The Depression. ISBN   978-1951628024 . Retrieved August 11, 2020.{{cite book}}: |work= ignored (help)
This page is based on this Wikipedia article
Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license; additional terms may apply.
Images, videos and audio are available under their respective licenses.