Katy Grannan: The Ninety Nine and The Nine (Non-mint)

2 softcover volumes in slipcase | 160 pp

Fraenkel Gallery | 2014 | 9781881337386

The result of three years of work in California's Central Valley, Katy Grannan's series The 99 features large-scale colour portraits and black-and-white photographs. These photographs are set in the parched landscape and forgotten towns along Highway 99, including Modesto, Fresno and Bakersfield.

In her intensely vivid colour portraits, the artist works at midday when the sun is direct and the heat is unrelenting, presenting each individual, often simultaneously heroic and vulnerable, against stark, white backgrounds. In the black-and-white photographs, many of her subjects re-appear on Modesto's South 9th Street and along the banks of the Tuolumne River. Everyday rituals, small interactions and moments of beauty on the fringes of society are depicted in detail, conferring significance to what is often overlooked. This large-format, two-volume, slipcased monograph gathers this series for the first time.

Katy Grannan's (b. 1969) photographs are included in the collections of the Whitney Museum of American Art, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, the Guggenheim Museum, New York, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, among others. 

PLEASE NOTE: This book is a NON-MINT item. NON-MINT books are new but are either ex-display copies or warehouse marked - minor cosmetic imperfections such as scuffs, marks, or minor dents to the covers.