{"product_id":"michael-jang-who-is-michael-jang-9780997593594","title":"Michael Jang: Who Is Michael Jang?","description":"\u003cp\u003eWho is Michael Jang? I dont know if hes a hipster or a nerd  a conceptual genius or instinctual savant. All I know is that he takes some of the best pictures Ive ever seen. Alec Soth San Franciscobased photographer Michael Jang spent nearly four decades working as a successful commercial portrait photographer. Unbeknownst to the world  however  he was simultaneously assembling a vast archive of thousands of remarkable images documenting  variously: college days  Hollywood celebrities  would-be weather presenters  San Francisco street scenes  his family  Bay Area punks and adolescent garage bands. Jang revealed nothing of his ever-expanding  eclectic archive for almost 40 years until 2001  when he submitted a number of images for consideration to San Franciscos Museum of Modern Art. Jangs work attracted immediate acclaim  and for the past decade he has continued to unveil his considerable oeuvre in national and international exhibitions and monographs.  The photographers first major monograph  Who Is Michael Jang? highlights Jangs most important bodies of work. Introduced by his longtime collaborator and SFMOMA curator emerita of photography  Sandra Phillips  this volume offers readers a long-overdue introduction to Jangs incredible images.  Michael Jang (born 1951) has practiced photography in San Francisco for more than 50 years. After decades of successful commercial portraiture  Jang began to revisit the vast archive of unseen  spontaneous images he has amassed  many of which betray the influence of celebrated street photographers such as Lee Friedlander  Garry Winogrand and Lisette Model.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45666387198005,"sku":"ByrdShop_0997593598","price":144.66,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780997593594.jpg?v=1782430266","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/michael-jang-who-is-michael-jang-9780997593594","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}