DATE: July 16, 2009
Mark Cohen, Boy in Yellow Shirt Smoking, Scranton, PA, 1977, courtesy of Mark Cohen and HASTED HUNT, NYCHis subjects are the people he encounters on the streets, at such close range that the work would feel confrontational, even rude, if it weren't so good-natured and amused. Although these color prints are products of the all but obsolete dye-transfer process, there's nothing precious about them; Cohen's dirty realism—his eye for grime, bruises, and decay—rules. His appetite for grunge is voracious, and we end up sharing his hunger
From The New Yorker.
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Review: Mark Cohen at Hasted Hunt
Other photographers are known for their pictures of Los Angeles, Paris, or Tokyo. Cohen's beat is Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, his gritty, working-class hometown, but he's not exactly recording civic landmarks.
Mark Cohen, Boy in Yellow Shirt Smoking, Scranton, PA, 1977, courtesy of Mark Cohen and HASTED HUNT, NYCFrom The New Yorker.
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