Stacy Kranitz

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Stacy Kranitz (born 7 March 1976) is an American photographer who works in the documentary tradition and lives in the Appalachian Mountains of eastern Tennessee. [1] [2] [3] She has made long-term personal projects about the Appalachian region and worked as an assignment photographer for magazines and newspapers. Kranitz's work is held in the collections of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston [4] and Harvard Art Museums. [5]

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Early life and education

Kranitz was born in Frankfort, Kentucky, USA. [1] [2] She earned a BA at New York University Gallatin School of Individualized Study and a MA at the University of California, Irvine. [6]

Career

Since studying she has worked as an assignment photographer for magazines and newspapers such as National Geographic, Vanity Fair and The Atlantic. [7]

Since 2009 Kranitz has been documenting the Appalachian region of America, whose inhabitants have been typecast as "down-and-out or undignified". [7] She "lives in Appalachia and creates images from her perspective as a participant-observer, immersing herself in the lives of the individuals depicted." [3]

The series From The Study on Post-Pubescent Manhood shows young men at a dystopian compound in the Southern Ohio Appalachian region. Kranitz turns the "reckless, juvenile behavior [. . .] into activities imbued with symbolic importance, icons of social freedom. The lives and actions portrayed by her subjects are therefore simultaneously repellent and attractive." [8] [9]

The series As it Was Give(n) to Me, made in Kentucky, North Carolina, Tennessee and Virginia is "a dialogue about stereotypes: the mythology they create, their value and their role in society." [10] [11] "Rather than portraying Appalachia as poverty-stricken or selectively focusing on its positive aspects, she sought to capture the complexity of rural, working-class life from a nuanced viewpoint." [7]

She did a series of documentary photographs titled Fulcrum of Malice depicting sights around Alsen, Louisiana near Baton Rouge. The area, referred to as "cancer alley" is surrounded by industrial pollution. [12] Kranitz states the series "asks us to acknowledge our complicit role in systemic racism through our dependence on plastics and petroleum." [13] A documentary arts collection award was given for it. [14]

Publications

Awards

Collections

Kranitz's work is held in the following permanent collections:

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  5. 1 2 "Harvard Art Museums". harvardartmuseums.org. Retrieved 2022-07-03.
  6. ↑ "CV". Stacy Kranitz. Retrieved 2022-07-03.
  7. 1 2 3 Elia, Christina (9 June 2022). "Intimate photos of working-class life in Appalachia". I-D . Retrieved 2022-07-04.
  8. 1 2 "From The Study On Post-Pubescent Manhood". www.gupmagazine.com. Retrieved 2022-07-04.
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  10. ↑ "As It Was Give(n) to Me". British Journal of Photography. Retrieved 2022-07-03.
  11. ↑ O'Hagan, Sean (9 October 2015). "Can a photostory on the Appalachians shuck the hillbilly stereotype?". The Guardian. Retrieved 2022-07-03.
  12. ↑ https://www.stacykranitz.com/fulcrum-of-malice
  13. ↑ https://groups.google.com/g/mossless/c/vpve7cXiLVI?pli=1
  14. ↑ https://library.duke.edu/rubenstein/documentaryarts/awards/collection_awards
  15. ↑ Tekeste, Semhal (26 December 2017). "Stacy Kranitz & Zoe Strauss on their Collaborative Examination of American Economic Decay". Photo District News . Retrieved 2022-07-05.
  16. ↑ "Meet TIME's Instagram Photographer of 2015". Time. Retrieved 2022-07-03.
  17. ↑ Hallenbeck, Gaelen. "Stacy Kranitz". John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. Retrieved 2022-07-03.
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