Susan Hacker Stang

I am a photographer, author and a former educator.

I majored in photography at the Rhode Island School of Design, receiving my BFA in 1971 and my MFA in 1974, While there I studied under photographers Harry Callahan and Aaron Siskind. After receiving my BFA, I re-located for one year to London where I worked as a photographer for the cutting-edge British fashion magazine NOVA. In 1974, after receiving my MFA, I joined the faculty of Webster University in St. Louis, where I helped found and build the photographic studies program in the School of Communications. (I taught there for forty-one years after that!) For a number of years, I taught during the summer at The Darkroom in Florence, Italy.

My work has been collected by more than 25 major museums and libraries around the world and appears in numerous books and magazines. I have also published several books. My first book, Encountering Florence/Firenze un incontro (2007), includes a series of Polaroid emulsion transfers representing my encounter with the city of Florence. The book’s bi-lingual text presents accompanying word-portraits from well-known authors in their own encounters with the city. I also co-edited Kodachrome – End of the Run: Photographs from the Final Batches, (2011), which features a selection of photographs from among the final rolls of Kodachrome ever processed. Then in 2012, I curated a set of notecards for Chronicle Books, Kodachrome Notes, which represented another selection of images from those historic final batches.In 2016, I published a limited-edition book, reAPPEARANCES. a sequence of fifty-two photographs that takes the viewer on a journey through the uncanny coherence of the look of the world, shot with a JOCO VX5, a strange little camera produced briefly in Singapore.
 I retired in 2015 and have since relocated to Norwalk. I'm currently working on a series of photographs about diners in the American northeast.

Statement

I am a photographic artist.  I have been working in this medium for many years.  Throughout all my different series, processes and types of cameras that I have used, I have wanted to create a moment through a still image that is slightly surreal, enigmatic, even sometimes disquieting.  I have wanted to create a world the viewer is enticed to enter, or at least I should clarify, a world that I am definitely enticed to enter.  For a number of years, I have been using almost exclusively various quirky toy cameras.

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SUSAN HACKER STANG website: www.susanhackerstang.com#####r...##### email: stang.susan@gmail.com cell: 314-639-3606 EDUCATION: M.F.A., Photography, 1974. Rhode Island School of Design. (Studied with Harry Callahan and Aaron Siskind.)B.F.A., Photography, 1971. Rhode Island School of Design. PERMANENT COLLECTIONS: Barnes Hospital, St. Louis, MOBiblioteca Nazionale Centrale, FlorenceBibliotheque Nationale, ParisCalifornia Museum of Photography, Riverside, CACallahan?Siskind Photographic Resource Center, Rhode Island School of DesignCenter for Creative Photography, University of Arizona, TucsonCreative Photography Laboratory Study Archives, M.I.T., BostonDeCordova Museum, Lincoln, MAEmerson Library Archives, Webster University, St. LouisFacet Photography Collection, Tulsa, OKHigh Museum of Art, Atlanta, GAInternational Museum of Photography at George Eastman House, RochesterLibrary of Congress, Washington, D.C.Mark Twain Bancshares, Inc. Collection, St. LouisMassachusetts College of Art, BostonMuseo di Storia della Fotografia Fratelli Alinari, FlorenceMuseum of Art, Rhode Island School of DesignNewport Art MuseumPhotographic Archives, U. of Louisville, KYPinhole Resource, San Lorenzo, NMPortland Museum of Art, Portland, MainePrinceton University Art MuseumRhode Island School of Design Museum, Providence, RI Safety Mutual Casualty Corporation, St. Louis, MOSaint Louis Art Museum, MOSan Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA)Southeast Museum of Photography, Daytona Beach, FLSuwa Art Museum, Suwa, JapanThe University Hospital, St. Louis University and other personal collections

PUBLICATIONS: reAPPEARANCES. numbered limited-edition monograph of 500 (2016)The City at 250. The Sheldon Art Galleries, St. Louis (2014)Kodachrome Notes. Chronicle Books, San Francisco (2012)Kodachrome, End of the Run: Photographs from the Final Batches (2011) Webster University Press, St. Louis ISBN 978-0-9821615-2-4 (co-edited book, wrote introductory essay, two photographs in gallery section)Encountering Florence/FIRENZE un incontro (July 2007) Palombi Editori, Rome; Webster University Press, St. Louis ISBN 978-88-6060-072-1 Florence: Susan Hacker Stang. (Hand-made book republished as catalog for FlorenceFirenze, exhibit at Untitled Center for Contemporary Arts. Florence, Italy) June 2006Polaroid.com. Gallery Artist Section. Emulsion Lift Section. (2005- ) ASMP, St. Louis in Focus. Vol. 2, No. 3: Spring 2003 (front cover and inside feature)The Sefirot. Rabbi James Stone Goodman. 2002 (CD cover)Elements of Literature, Grade 11. Holt, Rinehart and Winston. 1997A Strange Heart. Poems by Jane O. Wayne. Helicon Nine Editions. 1996 (back cover)River Styx. Issue 46. (Front cover. Two interior photographs.) 1996St. Louis Gallery Guide. Spring/Summer 1993 (back cover)Exploring Color Photography, Second Ed. R. Hirsch. Wm. C. Brown, Publ. 1993Jerusalem As She Is. BKMK Press, Kansas City. 1991 (cover)St. Louis Post?Dispatch (Science/Everyday) "Tracing Path Of Galapagos Pioneers"; Sept. 15, 1987Celebrating Women. (catalog, 1986; calendar, 1987, St. Louis)Executive Travel Collection, 1986, Album Network, Inc.The Visionary Pinhole. 1985 (Peregrine Smith Books)The Silver Bullet Portfolio; 1983. (R.I.)Between Twelve and Twenty. 1982 (CT.)The Finished Print, 1981. (catalog)Hatzilum (Photography) Magazine. Israel. July 1979 (portfolio)Webster College Photography Portfolio: 1978. (MO.)Six Missouri Artists. 1977 (catalog)Images of Woman. 1977 (catalog)Creative Camera International Yearbook, 1977. (London)Women See Woman. 1976 (T.Y. Crowell, Publ.)Sunday Pictures Magazine, St. Louis Post?Dispatch. May 1976 (portfolio)British Journal of Photography. London. April 1972 (portfolio)NOVA Magazine. London. 1971?1972 issuesRhode Island School of Design Portfolio. 1971


SELECTED ONE?PERSON EXHIBITIONS: 2022. Resonance. Bonsack Gallery, St. Louis, MO2016. reAPPEARANCES. The Sheldon Art Galleries, St. Louis, MO 2014. Chasing Serendipity. IPHF Museum of Photography, St. Louis, MO 2012. Italy: Through the Lens. Collinsville Memorial Library, Collinsville , IL (toy camera work)2008. Encountering Florence/Firenze un incontro. Left Bank Books Gallery, St. Louis, MO2006. FlorenceFirenze. Untitled Center for Contemporary Arts. Florence, Italy2003. Israel: 1977-1979. The Gallery at Neve Shalom. St. Louis, MO2001. SUSAN HACKER STANG: Light on Stone, Light on Water. Recent Photographs from Italy. The Gallery of Photography. The Sheldon Art Galleries. St. Louis, MO1999. Martin Schweig Gallery, St. Louis, MO. “The Sea at Truro/The Sea at Venice”1998. Triptychs. K &S Imaging and Photographics, St. Louis, MO.1994. Martin Schweig Gallery, St. Louis, MO. "D'Espana" May Gallery, Webster University, St. Louis, MO. "Susan Hacker Stang: Twenty Year Retrospective"1993. Richmond Art Center Gallery, Windsor, Ct. "The Berlin Wall, Heinrich?Heine? Platz, June 19, 1990"1993. Martin Schweig Gallery, St. Louis, MO., "Italia Classica"1991. Martin Schweig Gallery, St. Louis, MO., "Windows: 1984?1990" Winston Churchill Memorial and Library, Fulton, MO., "June 19/November Nine," an installation of (two) ten?inch by twenty?eight foot photographic sequences on the dismantling of the Berlin Wall, shown with video art piece by Jill Petzall. 1987. Martin Schweig Gallery, St. Louis, MO. (two?person exhibition)1985. Center For Metropolitan Studies, University of Missouri, St. Louis. "Jerusalem: A City In Motion"1983. Photography Gallery. Stephens College. Columbia, MO. Silver Bullet Gallery. Providence, R.I. "Israel: A Photographic Portrait"1982. Prairie State College, Photography Gallery 417. Chicago Heights, IL. "Mothers/Daughters and Other Diptychs" Rutger Gallery. Utica, N.Y. "Mothers/Daughters and Other Diptychs"1981. The Gallery. University City Public Library. St. Louis, MO. "Israel: A Photographic Portrait"1980. Darkroom Gallery. The Memphis Academy of Arts. Memphis, TN. Humanities Walkway Gallery. St. Louis Community College at Meramec. St. Louis, MO.1979. Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, Jerusalem. "Projections"1978. 13 x 15 Photography Gallery. St. Louis, MO "Israel Photographs: 1977"1976. Meramec Community College Gallery. St. Louis, MO. "English Photographs"1974. 13 x 15 Gallery, St. Louis, MO Woods-Gerry Gallery, RISD, Providence, RI 'Transparent Bowling Balls and Other Local Phenomena"1973. Project, Inc., Boston MA Numerous group exhibitions from 1972 on, including The Sheldon Art Galleries, St. Louis; SRISA Gallery of Contemporary Art, Florence, Italy; Southeast Museum of Photography, Daytona Beach; St. Louis Art Museum; Portland Museum of Art, Portland, ME; Foto Gallery, NYC and others. Numerous professional activities over the years including presentations, workshops, serving on panels and jurying exhibits. Currently a member of the Silvermine Artists Guild in New Canaan, CT.

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