Protest Photographs by Chauncey Hare. Over the next month, time willing, I will be featuring several books which are my picks for best books of the year.
The first is the new Steidl and Steven Kasher publication of Chauncey Hare's Protest Photographs. Chauncey Hare is known primarily for his 1978 book Interior America from Aperture. Attuned to his own estrangement in the corporate world being a research engineer for Standard Oil, he began photographing as an escape from his everyday routine. In his written introductory essay he describes the physical and psychological toll that such an environment had on his health including daily nausea and extreme panic disorders from which he suffered.
These unpleasant attacks would let up as the week ended and Hare could look forward to photographing during the weekends. William Gedney Photographs and Writings. DOUG RICKARD.