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Brian Finke | “Tracking Down America’s Most Wanted,” Daily Mail

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From Annabel Grossman’s article for the Daily Mail:

A photographer has spent the last three years capturing the men and women of the U.S Marshals working in dozens of cities across the country.

Brian Finke documented America’s oldest federal law enforcement agency by following their daily lives as they transport criminals, protect witnesses and track down some of the most dangerous fugitives in the United States.

His latest book differs significantly from his previous publications, having successful shadowed the world of American footballers, cheerleaders, flight attendants and construction.

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Lori Nix | “Lori Nix,” Musée Magazine

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From Andrea Blanch’s interview for Musée Magazine:

AB: What do you feel is the difference between creating your subject matter and finding it out in the world?

LN: Well, you have more control, for one thing, so you can direct exactly what the viewer is going to see. What’s interesting about these models is I only build them from one vantage point; that of the camera lens. If you take two steps to either side you will see the building materials I never finished. You will see hot glue and clamps and everything else. There is a type of photography that looks a lot like mine for urban explorers. It’s these people going into abandoned spaces all through U.S. and E.U. and photographing. Do I really want to be an urban explorer in New York City? No. I’m not a fan of rats or smelly places.

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Brian Finke | “The marshal plan,” The Brooklyn Paper

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From Noah Hurowitz’ article for The Brooklyn Newspaper:

“I like being very obsessive about one thing and exhausting it over the period of a few years,” Finke said.

At the book launch, Finke will be joined by his friend Cameron Welch, who is also a marshal. The photographer said he first got the idea for “U.S. Marshals” after reconnecting with Welch in his hometown of Houston. His pal had recently transitioned from the military to the Marshal Service, and it was through Welch that Finke first started to eye the lawmen and women as potential subjects for his next project.

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Brian Finke | “The Wild World of US Marshals,” Business Insider Australia

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From Harrison Jacob’s story for Business Insider Australia:

Established in 1789 by George Washington, the US Marshals Service is the oldest law enforcement agency in the country.

As the enforcement arm of the US Federal Courts, the Marshals are tasked with capturing fugitives, serving federal arrest warrants, transporting prisoners, and overseeing the witness protection program.

The job puts agents directly in the way of the most dangerous criminals in the nation.

Photographer Brian Finke recently shadowed a US Marshal to get the inside view of what may be the most dangerous job in America.

Marshals don’t care whether a fugitive is guilty or not and they don’t solve crimes. Their only job is to find and apprehend the target. “This is really a big game, a mental and physical game,” a US Marshal told the Washington Post. “The bandit’s job is to run; our job is to catch him.”

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Against Nature

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January 8 – February 14, 2015

Artist’s reception:
Thursday, January 8, 2015
6.00 – 8.00 p.m.

ClampArt is proud to present “Pacifico Silano: Against Nature,” the artist’s first solo show in New York City.

“Against Nature” is a body of work that investigates the subjugated history of gay men living in Nazi Germany during World War II. Taking its name from “Paragraph 175,” part of the old German Criminal Code that made acts of homosexuality illegal, it also was the rallying cry of a homophile movement dating back to Oscar Wilde and Aestheticism in the 19th century. Employing the color scheme of red, black, and white—the same Prussian color combination relating to a large number of nationalistic move-ments (both left and right), in addition to much of the print culture of the day, but also Nazi propaganda specifically, of course—Silano’s project creates new meaning in found photographs juxtaposed with obscure portraits and still life imagery. Culled from a variety of sources—including World War II photographs, but also earlier naturist journals—Silano’s work highlights the link from German nationalism back to earlier body culture movements—which incidentally were the first to organize German youth into nationalistic cadres. And by alternating between images of single figures to groups, Silano considers the relationship of the individual to the collective as it relates to identity, memory, history, and the Holocaust.

Pacifico Silano received a BFA from the Pennsylvania College of Art and Design, and an MFA in photography from the School of Visual Arts, New York City. He has exhibited internationally, including group shows at the Bronx Museum; Context, Miami; Oude Kerk, Amsterdam; and ClampArt, New York City. Awards won by Silano include the 2012 Individual Photographer’s Fellowship from the Aaron Siskind Foundation; Finalist for the Aperture Foundation Portfolio Prize; First Prize at the Pride Photo Awards in Amsterdam; and a Work Space Residency at Baxter St/Camera Club of New York.

Brian Finke | “Art and Testosterone,” Reciprocity Failure

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From Stan B.’s post at Reciprocity Failure:

No doubt that Brian Finke can take one helluva photo. This guy’s got chops, period. He can take high adrenaline action shots and formalize them into “fine art” color photography that can compete with the best of ’em. Not only does he make masterful use of the color palette, he also artfully composes his shots so that the action (or lack of it), staged or real, grabs your attention and holds it. And his use of lighting is just the right balance to complement and define the shot without sanitizing or commercializing it. It’s interesting to examine just how this guy sees and work, and how he brings that complexity of vision to this particular “action genre.”

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Brian Finke | “U.S. Marshals,” Lenscratch

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From Aline Smithson’s story for Lenscratch:

Photographer Brian Finke has just released his fourth monograph, U.S. Marshals, published by powerHouse Books. Brian spent over four years photographing Marshals capturing the culture, practices and procedures of the United States’ oldest law enforcement agency. His access was unprecedented and his cinematic capture, compelling.

Brian graduated from the School of Visual Arts in New York City in 1998 with a BFA in photography. Since that time, he has had incredible success as an artist, with work placed in nine museum collections here and abroad. The author of 2-4-6-8: American Cheerleaders and Football Players (Umbrage, 2003), Flight Attendants (powerHouse, 2008), and Construction (DECODE, 2012), his first monograph was named one of the best photography books of 2004 by “American Photo.”

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Brian Finke | “Ride Along With America’s Marshal Officers,” Time Magazine

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From Adam Glanzman’s story on Brian Finke’s new work for Time Magazine:

When he’s not shooting for publications around the world, photographer Brian Finke makes the time to work on long personal documentary projects. His most recent one, called U.S. Marshals, takes an intimate look into the lives of those serving in the U.S. Marshal service, the oldest law enforcement agency in the country.

Finke’s interest in the U.S. Marshals came from re-connecting in 2010 with Cameron Welch, a current Marshal and friend from high school. The encounter led him to spend the following three years on regular embeds with the U.S. Marshals in more than a dozen U.S. cities.

“It’s pretty amazing watching them do what they do,” says Finke. “It was kind of like my own version of the TV show ‘Cops,’ putting a bulletproof vest on and running in behind them as they go catch the bad guys.”

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