“One can see Kwon’s empathetic involvement, her poetical surgeon’s eye, in the way she frames the streets, fashion, faces, and situations that make up her world. Again and again, she incites the viewer to look at [what] she has faithfully recorded in her personal, anarchic, and radiant photographs.” HILTON ALS, THE NEW YORKER
STREET LEVEL: PHOTOGRAPHS 1987-2007 compiles twenty years of SUE KWON’s acclaimed documentary photographs of New York’s neighborhoods and people. In the tradition of great urban photographers like Weegee, Helen Levitt, and Danny Lyon, Kwon’s riveting black and white images of New York’s pre-Giuliani street life are authentic and unsentimental. From Chinatown to Coney Island, Kwon's camera captured the hustlers, rappers, graffiti artists, dancers and shoe-shiners with a clear-eyed precision.
SUE KWON began her career at THE VILLAGE VOICE, shooting subjects that ranged from runaways to underground Jamaican nightclubs in Queens. Her photographs have since been published in THE SOURCE, VIBE, and PAPER magazines, and she has become a well-known portrait photographer of hip hop stars, including NOTORIOUS B.I.G., the BEASTIE BOYS and the WU-TANG CLAN. Her work has been featured in group shows in New York and Copenhagen and been the subject of solo shows at A Bathing Ape Gallery in Tokyo and Clic Gallery in New York.
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