Will Steacy

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Will Steacy (born 1980) is an American writer and photographer based in New York City. His work is held in the collection of the Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago.

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Life and work

Steacy "descended from five generations of newspaper men. His great-great-great-grandfather started the Evening Dispatch in York, Pa., in 1876 and his father was an editor for The Philadelphia Inquirer." [1] He received his BFA from the Tisch School of the Arts, at New York University in 2003. [2] Before becoming a professional photographer, he worked as a union laborer. [3]

Sean O'Hagan in The Observer described Steacy's Down these Mean Streets (2012) as "a merging of his own photographs with newspaper clippings, journal entries and various found material pertaining to the long death of the American dream, from Reaganomics in the 1980s to the current economic recession." [4]

In 2011 he photographed paper money, "removed from circulation but not yet destroyed, and photographed them with a large-format film camera". [5]

For five years from 2009, Steacy documented the struggle and decline of The Philadelphia Inquirer newspaper, published as a book, Deadline (2016), and as a tribute newspaper. [6] [7] [8] [9] [10]

Publications

Publications by Steacy

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Exhibitions

Awards

Collections

Steacy's work is held in the following permanent collection:

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References

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  3. ↑ "BIO". Will Steacy. Retrieved 2020-09-08.
  4. ↑ "The best photography books of 2012: an alternative selection". The Guardian. 21 December 2012. Retrieved 2020-09-07.
  5. ↑ "Where Does Money Go When It Dies?". NPR.org. Retrieved 2020-09-07.
  6. ↑ "The slow death of the great American newsroom". The Guardian. 21 March 2015. Retrieved 2020-09-07.
  7. ↑ White, Jon. "End of an era: Photos show decline of the US newspaper industry". New Scientist. Retrieved 2020-09-07.
  8. ↑ "Book chronicling Philly newspaper is a portrait of journalistic 'valor'". Columbia Journalism Review. Retrieved 2020-09-07.
  9. ↑ Schiller, Jakob (18 April 2013). "Philly Inquirer's Hard Years Are Microcosm of Newspapers' Long Goodbye". Wired. ISSN   1059-1028 . Retrieved 2020-09-07.
  10. ↑ "Will Steacy: Chronicling Difficult Times at the Inquirer and Daily News". Philadelphia . 14 August 2014. Retrieved 2020-09-07.
  11. ↑ "Photographs Not Taken: what makes a photographer freeze?". The Guardian. 15 March 2012. Retrieved 2020-09-07.
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