Chauncey Hare?

Struan Gray · Sep 8, 2005

I've been reading Janet Malcolm's book of essays "Diana and Nikon". The best - well, my favourite - essay "Slouching Towards Bethlehem, PA" starts with Walker Evans and Robert Frank, and then concludes with a discussion of Chauncey Hare's book "Interior America".

Anyone have any information about Hare? Google got me nowhere, and book searches just turn up the books mentioned in Malcolm's article, and they're out of print. I'd like to know more, and particularly I'd like to see some of his photographs.

severian · Sep 16, 2005

Interior America

Chauncey Hare's book, the only one that I know of is titled "Interior America"
He was a multiple Guggenheim recipeient

Struan Gray · Sep 19, 2005

Thanks severian

It looks as if there is not much to see of Chauncey Hare's work, beyond what he originally published. Given the strength of the welcome that received, it seems a shame.

That said, I'll reserve judgement until I actually get my hands on a book and see for myself.

sasah zib · Jun 21, 2022

Chauncey Hare (June 19, 1934 – May 2019)
archive: https://calisphere.org/collections/27431/
his archive use agreement requires:
Use of this photograph is restricted by terms of the gift agreement between Chauncey Hare and the Regents of the University of California. All reproductions of this photograph must include both the title and date of the photograph, along with the following statement: “This photograph was (or 'these photographs were' if using more than one) made by Chauncey Hare to protest and warn against the growing domination of working people by multi-national corporations and their elite owners and managers."
[https://calisphere.org/item/ark:/13030/k6v988pk/]

Books:

Quitting Your Day Job. Chauncey Hare’s Photographic Work. Text by Robert Slifkin. Mack, 2021.

Protest Photographs. Photographs and text by Chauncey Hare. Edited by Jack Steven. Steidl / Steven Kasher Gallery, Gottingen, 2009.

This Was Corporate America. Text and photographs by Chauncey Hare. Afterword by Judy Wyatt. Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, 1984.

Interior America. Photographs and text by Chauncey Hare. Aperture, Millerton, NY, 1978.

going thru some old prints and ephemera. Checked Photrio for prior threads.

Arthurwg · Jun 21, 2022

Very interesting. Thanks for posting.

CMoore · Jun 21, 2022

His photography never spun my wheels, but i find his path to a camera very fascinating.
Who is the guy.....now..... that has a similar story.?
Segaldo or something like that.?
He has made an impact, traveling the globe, and photographing the Life/Plight of "working people".
Chauncey is a unique story. He had a pretty long career,

I still lament my lost gold mine.......................... 30 years of working in downtown San Francisco.
I had glorious access to rooftops, the street, and hundreds of views from dozens of buildings.
The pictures i could have..... SHOULD Have Taken
Oh Well.......

gone · Jun 21, 2022

CMoore said:
I still lament my lost gold mine.......................... 30 years of working in downtown San Francisco.

Me too, I wasn't into photography at the time though.

Walked out of my 6th street Tenderloin hotel early one morning and saw a guy frozen like a statue w/ an empty bottle of booze in one hand. Not unusual, we were in Wine Country, but when I looked to see what he was staring at I couldn't believe it. There at Taylor and Market was an elephant standing in the street, and someone was washing him off w/ a hose. Turned out a small circus had been at the Fillmore the previous night. No, not the Rolling Stones or the Grateful Dead, another type of circus.

You can only imagine what the drunk was thinking. If I'd had a camera, that shot would have been on the cover of some big deal magazine for sure. Or at least the S.F. Chronicle, it was a real newspaper back then.

Alex Benjamin · Jun 21, 2022

Mack Books just brought out Quitting Your Day Job: Chauncey Hare's Photographic Works by Robert Slifkin

Quitting Your Day Job: Chauncey Hare’s Photographic Work - Robert Slifkin

Available to preorder - this title is due to launch in April 2022. Quitting Your Day Job: Chauncey Hare’s Photographic Work is the first critical biography of the American photographer Chauncey Hare (1934–2019). Although Hare experienced a significant, if fleeting, degree of professional...

mackbooks.co.uk

EDIT: Didn't notice you already had it on your list, sasah zib

Alex Benjamin · Jun 21, 2022

Alec Soth has an interesting segment about Interior America in one of his videos:

logan2z · Jun 21, 2022

He was a very interesting character. He picketed outside an exhibition at the SF MoMA that was exhibiting one of his own photographs. and demanded that the photograph be removed from the show and urged a boycott - apparently because the show was sponsored by Philip Morris.

@Alex Benjamin Thanks for the heads up on the Mack book reissue of Quitting Your Day Job.

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