Katy Grannan is an American photographer from Arlington, Massachusetts born in 1969 who now lives in Berkeley, California. She earned BA from the University of Pennsylvania and her MFA from the Yale University School of Art. She has been exhibited in many Museums and Institutes including the Guggenheim Museum and publications such as Artforum and The New Yorker among others.
Grannan finds her models by placing ads in local papers. "Art models wanted: Female photographer seeks people for portraits. All ages. All types. No experience necessary. Will pay." These models therefore convey individuality, fantasy, rebellion and intimacy.
Her photograph, Ghent, NY created in 2000 shot with a 4 x 5 camera, lights and a fan inside the mundane environment of a strangers home portrays a young woman wearing her mothers prom dress, holding one of the many birds that occupied her mother's house where she resided. The adolescent female transforms for an instant into an elegant heiress of another time.
“A static image [..] is never the same as the person or the moment I’ve tried to describe. In fact, these subjects, and these moments are new stories. The process itself is theater, and among other things, the photograph has a life of its own. It is a document of nothing, really. What is true and what is invented are constantly overlapping and indiscernible.” - Katy Grannan
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