Karen Kuehn: Maverick Camera | MONOVISIONS - Black & White Photography Magazine

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Maverick Camera is a collection of Karen Kuehn’s work primarily centered on her time as a professional photographer in New York City. Previously a Ranger for the US park service in Montana, Kuehn arrived in NYC in the late 1980’s just as The Factory, Interview Magazine, and Punk Rock were exploding on the scene. Maverick Camera is a memoir of sorts, where personal recollections and anecdotes mix with images lending an intimacy to the book while giving readers insight as to how a particular model or experience affected Kuehn. Karen’s beliefs, desires, and interests are delineated in her poetic text but also illustrated in her images, as Reid Callanan of the Santa Fe Photographic Workshops states:
“…Karen is one of my favorite portrait photographers because her portraits express an unwavering belief in the goodness of people. Her portraits reveal as much about her worldview as they do about the person sitting, standing, leaning or jumping in front of her lens.”

The Bookstore Project Space exhibition includes black-and-white celebrity portraits from Kuehn’s time working in New York City, including Bill Murray, Brian Eno, Cher, The B-52’s, James Taylor, Robin Williams, and Tom Hanks among others.

Karen Kuehn is a photographer with a knack for seeing with a unique point of view. The past 25 years, Kuehn’s images have appeared in Vanity Fair, Time, Newsweek, Reader’s Digest, People, The New York Times, National Geographic, and numerous other publications. In her personal projects, she is committed to documenting and preserving aspects of Americans, viewing each as an individual. Karen lives and works on a small farm in Peralta, New Mexico.

Karen Kuehn
Maverick Camera
Feb 25th – Apr 29th, 2017

photo-eye | Gallery
541 S Guadalupe St, Santa Fe, NM 87501, USA
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