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He Opened Up Somewhere Along the Eastern Shore

Title: He Opened Up Somewhere Along the Eastern Shore

Photographer/s: Jason Hanasik

Contributor/s: John Neff (essay)

Date of publication: 2010

Place of publication: Chicago, USA

Dimensions: 10×8 inches

Edition size: unlimited

Type of binding: softcover, perfect binding

Number of pages: 40

Type of paper: matte

Number of pictures: 19

Type of printing: 4 color digital press

Printer: Blurb

Publisher: Blurb and Iceberg Projects

Designer: Tom Burtonwood/Jason Hanasik

Language: English

Category: Exhibition Catalogue

Price: $21.95

Summary: Artist Statement for the project:

He Opened Up Somewhere Along the Eastern Shore utilizes image-making as a wedge to intervene inside Western culture’s traditions and expectations related to masculinity, class, and heroism. This project opens up a space for a counter-narrative to exist, one that focuses on individual experience, vulnerability, and intimacy rather than that which is enforced by the State: an impenetrable unit.

“We, the men of these images and myself, might not sit at an equal distance from the center, but we all have a complicated relationship to what is considered normal — to our benefit and our destruction.”

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Notes about the catalogue:

This catalogue combines a short critical essay about the project by John Neff, photographs from the project, and a nonfiction essay/narrative by Jason Hanasik also called “He Opened Up Somewhere Along the Eastern Shore.”

Date and place of birth of photographer/s: 1981 Norfolk, VA

Website: www.jasonhanasik.com

Book link: http://www.blurb.com/bookstore/detail/1890726

Donated by: Jason Hanasik

Published on July 8, 2011 9:53 pm.
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