Will Steacy

Will Steacy (born 1980) is an American writer and photographer based in New York City. His work is held in the collection of the Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago.

Life and work

Steacy "descended from five generations of newspaper men. His great-great-great-grandfather started the Evening Dispatch in York, Pa., in 1876 and his father was an editor for The Philadelphia Inquirer."[1] He received his BFA from the Tisch School of the Arts, at New York University in 2003.[2] Before becoming a professional photographer, he worked as a union laborer.[3]

Sean O'Hagan in The Observer described Steacy's Down these Mean Streets (2012) as "a merging of his own photographs with newspaper clippings, journal entries and various found material pertaining to the long death of the American dream, from Reaganomics in the 1980s to the current economic recession."[4]

In 2011 he photographed paper money, "removed from circulation but not yet destroyed, and photographed them with a large-format film camera".[5]

For five years from 2009, Steacy documented the struggle and decline of The Philadelphia Inquirer newspaper, published as a book, Deadline (2016), and as a tribute newspaper.[6][7][8][9][10]

Publications

Publications by Steacy

  • Photographs Not Taken: A Collection of Photographers' Essays. Chapel Hill, NC: Daylight, 2012. Second revised edition. ISBN 978-0-983231-61-5.[11] With an introduction by Lyle Rexer and essays by Dave Anderson, Timothy Archibald, Roger Ballen, Thomas Bangsted, Juliana Beasley, Nina Berman, Elinor Carucci, Kelli Connell, Paul D'Amato, Tim Davis, KayLynn Deveney, Doug DuBois, Rian Dundon, Amy Elkins, Jim Goldberg, Emmet Gowin, Gregory Halpern, Tim Hetherington, Todd Hido, Rob Hornstra, Eirik Johnson, Chris Jordan, Nadav Kander, Ed Kashi, Misty Keasler, Lisa Kereszi, Erika Larsen, Shane Lavalette, Deana Lawson, Joshua Lutz, David Maisel, Mary Ellen Mark, Laura McPhee, Michael Meads, Andrew Moore, Richard Mosse, Zwelethu Mthethwa, Laurel Nakadate, Ed Panar, Christian Patterson, Andrew Phelps, Sylvia Plachy, Mark Power, Peter Riesett, Simon Roberts, Joseph Rodriguez, Stefan Ruiz, Matt Salacuse, Alessandra Sanguinetti, Aaron Schuman, Jamel Shabazz, Alec Soth, Amy Stein, Mark Steinmetz, Joni Sternbach, Hank Willis Thomas, Brian Ulrich, Peter van Agtmael, Massimo Vitali, Hiroshi Watanabe, Alex Webb, and Rebecca Norris Webb.
  • Down These Mean Streets. Zürich: B.frank, 2012. Photographs by Steacy with newspaper clippings, journal entries and various found material. ISBN 978-3936300802. Edition of 400 copies.
  • Deadline. Vol. 1. Zürich: B.frank, 2015. Photographs by Steacy and essays by various journalists. ISBN 978-3-906217-06-2. Newspaper format.
  • Deadline. Vol. 2. Zürich: B.frank, 2016. Photographs by Steacy and essays by various journalists. ISBN 9783906217079.[12][13][14]

Publications with contributions by Steacy

Exhibitions

  • Down These Mean Streets, part of Looking for America – Diffusion, Cardiff International Festival of Photography, 2015, Ffotogallery, Cardiff, Wales[15][16]

Awards

Collections

Steacy's work is held in the following permanent collection:

References

  1. ^ "Art notes: Declining Philadelphia Inquirer has consequences beyond its walls". Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. Retrieved 2020-09-07.
  2. ^ "CV". Will Steacy. Retrieved 2020-09-08.
  3. ^ "BIO". Will Steacy. Retrieved 2020-09-08.
  4. ^ "The best photography books of 2012: an alternative selection". The Guardian. 21 December 2012. Retrieved 2020-09-07.
  5. ^ "Where Does Money Go When It Dies?". NPR.org. Retrieved 2020-09-07.
  6. ^ "The slow death of the great American newsroom". The Guardian. 21 March 2015. Retrieved 2020-09-07.
  7. ^ White, Jon. "End of an era: Photos show decline of the US newspaper industry". New Scientist. Retrieved 2020-09-07.
  8. ^ "Book chronicling Philly newspaper is a portrait of journalistic 'valor'". Columbia Journalism Review. Retrieved 2020-09-07.
  9. ^ Schiller, Jakob (18 April 2013). "Philly Inquirer's Hard Years Are Microcosm of Newspapers' Long Goodbye". Wired. ISSN 1059-1028. Retrieved 2020-09-07.
  10. ^ "Will Steacy: Chronicling Difficult Times at the Inquirer and Daily News". Philadelphia. 14 August 2014. Retrieved 2020-09-07.
  11. ^ "Photographs Not Taken: what makes a photographer freeze?". The Guardian. 15 March 2012. Retrieved 2020-09-07.
  12. ^ "Will Steacy – Blood and Ink". British Journal of Photography. 9 April 2015. Retrieved 2020-09-07.
  13. ^ Bush, Lewis (23 November 2015). "Review – Deadline by Will Steacy". disphotic.com. Retrieved 2020-09-07.
  14. ^ "My Photobook of 2015? 'Deadline' by Will Steacy". prisonphotography.org. 27 November 2015. Retrieved 2020-09-07.
  15. ^ "In pictures: Looking for America". BBC News. 1 October 2015. Retrieved 2020-09-07.
  16. ^ "Looking for America – Diffusion: Cardiff International Festival of Photography returns". British Journal of Photography. 8 October 2015. Retrieved 2020-09-07.
  17. ^ "Sneak Peek: PDN 30 Emerging Photographers to Watch 2011". Photo District News. 25 February 2011. Retrieved 2020-09-08.
  18. ^ "30 photographers to watch". Japan Today. Retrieved 2020-09-08.
  19. ^ "Announcing the Winners of the 2015 PhotoBook Awards". Aperture Foundation. 13 November 2015. Retrieved 13 November 2015.
  20. ^ Lowry, Rachel (13 November 2015). "Winners Announced for 2015 Paris Photo-Aperture Foundation PhotoBook Awards". Time. Retrieved 13 November 2015.
  21. ^ "The Paris Photo-Aperture Photobook Award Winners Reflect the Terror and Anxiety of Now". prisonphotography.org. 7 December 2015. Retrieved 2020-09-07.
  22. ^ O'Hagan, Sean (12 July 2014). "Les Rencontres d'Arles 2014 review – a fascination with the traditional". The Observer. ISSN 0029-7712. Retrieved 2020-09-07.
  23. ^ "Museum of Contemporary Photography". www.mocp.org. Retrieved 2020-09-07.