Janet Delaney
South Street with High Rises, 1984/2021

Archival pigment print, 15.25 x 15.25 inches
Edition 1/5 + 2AP, signed, verso
Unframed
Courtesy of the artist and EUQINOM Gallery
Estimated value: $3,000

Throughout the 1980s, Janet Delaney’s job in a San Francisco photography lab was punctuated by the last-minute flights she would take to New York as a courier. Within these unexpected pockets of time she spent in New York, Delaney would wander the streets with her Rolleiflex camera, attending to the rhythms and characters of this much-mythologized city. Despite her being tired and often lost, the act of photographing made Delaney feel present and alert, in tune with the crowds that pushed past her and mesmerized by the depth of history woven into the city’s structures.

The color photographs that make up this series are brimming with life and reveal the formation of Delaney’s generous approach to photographing streets and the people who inhabit them, capturing the precious mixture of private lives lived in public and transient moments of connection between photographer and subject.

About the Artist:
Janet Delaney

Janet Delaney (b.1952, Compton, CA) is a photographer based in Berkeley, California. She received the 2020 Guggenheim Fellowship and numerous other awards, most notably three National Endowment for the Arts grants. Her work has been the subject of national and international group and solo exhibitions, including South of The Market, at the De Young Museum, San Francisco, in 2015. Her photographs are found in the collections of San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Oakland Museum of California; Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center at the University of Texas; Pilara Foundation, San Francisco; De Young Museums of San Francisco; Museum of Modern Art, Rio de Janeiro; and the Bancroft Library at the University of California, Berkeley.

Her prior books include South of Market (MACK, 2013) and Public Matters (MACK, 2018). Janet Delaney received her MFA from San Francisco Art Institute. She was a lecturer and professor in photography throughout the Bay Area, including University of California, Berkeley, and San Francisco Art Institute. Delaney is releasing her third monograph, Red Eye to New York, to be published this fall by MACK.

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