Stacy Kranitz

Kranitz was born in Frankfort, Kentucky, USA. She earned a BA at New York University Gallatin School of Individualized Study and a MA at the University of California, Irvine.{{cite web|access-date=2022-07-03|title=CV|url=https://www.stacykranitz.com/pagecv|website=Stacy Kranitz}}

Since studying she has worked as an assignment photographer for magazines and newspapers such as National Geographic, Vanity Fair and The Atlantic.{{cite web|first1=Christina|last1=Elia|access-date=2022-07-04|title=Intimate photos of working-class life in Appalachia|url=https://i-d.vice.com/en_uk/article/pkgevk/intimate-photos-of-working-class-life-in-appalachia|date=9 June 2022|work=I-D}}

Since 2009 Kranitz has been documenting the Appalachian region of America, whose inhabitants have been typecast as "down-and-out or undignified". She "lives in Appalachia and creates images from her perspective as a participant-observer, immersing herself in the lives of the individuals depicted."

The series From The Study on Post-Pubescent Manhood shows young men at a dystopian compound in the Southern Ohio Appalachian region. Kranitz turns the "reckless, juvenile behavior [. . .] into activities imbued with symbolic importance, icons of social freedom. The lives and actions portrayed by her subjects are therefore simultaneously repellent and attractive."{{cite web|access-date=2022-07-04|title=From The Study On Post-Pubescent Manhood|url=http://www.gupmagazine.com/portfolios/from-the-study-on-post-pubescent-manhood|website=www.gupmagazine.com}}{{cite web|access-date=2022-07-04|title=Stacy Kranitz: The Study on Post Pubescent Manhood|url=http://lenscratch.com/2013/07/stacy-kranitz-study-on-post-pubescent/|date=29 July 2013|website=lenscratch.com}}

The series As it Was Give(n) to Me, made in Kentucky, North Carolina, Tennessee and Virginia is "a dialogue about stereotypes: the mythology they create, their value and their role in society."{{cite web|access-date=2022-07-03|title=As It Was Give(n) to Me|url=https://www.1854.photography/2019/07/as-it-was-given-to-me/|website=British Journal of Photography}}{{cite web|first1=Sean|last1=O'Hagan|authorlink=Sean O'Hagan (journalist)|access-date=2022-07-03|title=Can a photostory on the Appalachians shuck the hillbilly stereotype?|url=http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2015/oct/09/stacy-kranitz-photography-appalachia-stereotypes-as-it-was-given-to-me|date=9 October 2015|website=The Guardian}} "Rather than portraying Appalachia as poverty-stricken or selectively focusing on its positive aspects, she sought to capture the complexity of rural, working-class life from a nuanced viewpoint."

She did a series of documentary photographs titled Fulcrum of Malice depicting sights around Alsen, Louisiana near Baton Rouge. The area, referred to as "cancer alley" is surrounded by industrial pollution.{{cite web | url=https://www.stacykranitz.com/fulcrum-of-malice | title=Fulcrum of Malice }} Kranitz states the series "asks us to acknowledge our complicit role in systemic racism through our dependence on plastics and petroleum."{{cite web | url=https://groups.google.com/g/mossless/c/vpve7cXiLVI?pli=1 | title=New projects + recent commissions }} A documentary arts collection award was given for it.{{cite web | url=https://library.duke.edu/rubenstein/documentaryarts/awards/collection_awards | title=Collection Awards | Duke University Libraries }}

• The Louisiana Cockfighters Manual. New York: self-published, 2010. Edition of 100 copies.
• From the Study on Post-Pubescent Manhood. Canada: Straylight, 2013. Edition of 100 copies.
• Speak Your Piece. Here, 2016. {{ISBN|978-0993585333}}. Edition of 300 copies.
• The Great Divide. Lightworks, 2017. With Zoe Strauss. 64-page zine.{{cite web|first1=Semhal|last1=Tekeste|access-date=2022-07-05|title=Stacy Kranitz & Zoe Strauss on their Collaborative Examination of American Economic Decay|url=https://pdnonline.com/features/fine-art-photography/stacy-kranitz-zoe-strauss-collaborative-examination-american-economic-decay/|date=26 December 2017|website=Photo District News}}
• As it Was Give(n) to Me. Twin Palms, 2022. {{ISBN|978-1-936611-19-5}}.

• 2015: Time's Instagram Photographer of the Year{{cite magazine|access-date=2022-07-03|title=Meet TIME's Instagram Photographer of 2015|url=https://time.com/4100278/stacy-kranitz-instagram-photographer-of-the-year-2015/|magazine=Time}}
• 2020: Guggenheim Fellowship from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation{{cite web|first1=Gaelen|last1=Hallenbeck|access-date=2022-07-03|title=Stacy Kranitz|url=https://www.gf.org/fellows/all-fellows/stacy-kranitz/|website=John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation}}

Kranitz's work is held in the following permanent collections:

• Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX: 3 prints (as of 3 July 2022)
• Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, Massachusetts: 7 prints (as of 3 July 2022)

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