Biographie de Robert Slifkin
ROBERT SLIFKIN works at New York University where he is a Professor at the Institute of Fine Arts. He is the author of Out of Time : Philip Guston and the Refiguration of American Postwar Art (2013) and The New Monuments and the End of Man : U.S. Sculpture Between War and Peace, 1945-1975 (2019). His essays and criticism have appeared in such journals as Artforum, The Brooklyn Rail, American Art, Art Journal, October, Oxford Art Journal, and Racquet.
CHAUNCEY HARE (1936-2019) worked as a chemical engineer at Standard Oil in Richmond, California, from 1956 to 1977. During those years he also pursued a career as a photographer, receiving three Guggenheim Fellowships in 1969, 1971, and 1976, which allowed him to take time off from his job and travel throughout California and the Ohio River Valley documenting people and their living environments, as well as his fellow employees at Standard Oil.
In 1977 he was given a one-person exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, and the following year his book Interior America was published by Aperture. The same year, he would quit his job at Standard Oil and enroll in the MFA program at the San Francisco Art Institute. Unable to find a job in academia, Hare returned to the workforce, taking a job at the San Francisco office of the Environmental Protection Agency.
It was during this time that he self-published his second book, This Was Corporate America (1984), and made the decision to abandon photography. Hare went on to become a licensed psychotherapist specializing in work abuse, a subject that would be the title of a book that he co-authored with his wife, Judith Wyatt, in 1997. In 2009, Steidl published a collection of his work entitled Protest Photographs.