Chauncey Hare: Protest Photographs

Chauncey Hare does not define himself as a photographer, but rather as an engineer, a family therapist and, above all, a protester. In his fast-paced introduction to this volume, Hare recounts a life devoted to protest. He describes his keen identification with the people whose homes he photographed throughout the late 60s and early 70s, and his refusal to betray them by selling his images. The book documents the ordinary and claustrophobic reality of suburban America in the early 1970s and its inhabitants, victims of the unexpected and disconcerting implications of the American Dream. The beautifully printed photographs take up the legacy of authors such as Walker Evans.