701 Center for Contemporary Art presents Jan Banning, Bureaucratics August 5 – Sept. 19, 2010.
Artist’s Reception on Tuesday, September 7, 7-9 pm. Artist’s Reception sponsored by Chao and Associates.
The artist’s talk will be held on Thursday September 9th at 7pm. In early September, Banning will also begin a six-week residency at 701 CCA- Residency details to follow.
Banning, born in the Netherlands to Dutch-East-Indies parents, has been a photographer since 1981. He is among Europe’s most prominent photographers, with work being praised by Wall Street Journal , The New Yorker, Newsweek, Time (and more).
The 50 color photographs in Bureaucratics, each 30 x 30 inches in size, present civil servants at different levels of government in Bolivia, France, Yemen, Russia, Liberia, India, the USA (Texas) and China. The subjects are photographed behind their desks in their natural environment. For the India series, Banning won the World Press Photo 2004, Documentary Portrait Series; World Press Photo is the most prestigious award in photo journalism. Bureaucratics was published in 2008 by Nazraeli Press as Number 3 of the Parr/Nazraeli Edition. The book includes an introduction by Dutch author Will Tinnemans and a foreword by Martin Parr, both in English.
