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Butch Hogan is a New York City-based photographer who has worked in both fashion and music for more than a decade. His work has appeared in a number of fashion magazines, including Nylon and Interview, and on the music side in publications including Rolling Stone, Spin, Paste, the NME, Mojo and Harp.
Butch grew up north of San Francisco in Marin Country where he, in a glorious Fast Times atmosphere, engaged all the elements of 1980’s California: surfing, skateboarding, listening to punk rock and in general seeking shelter from the Reagan-era cold war climate of the U.S. At the age of 22, after a brief stay in a burned-out hotel north of Miami, he made his way to New York where he began down his path toward serious photography, first working as an assistant in the cutthroat world of high fashion photography and eventually developing his own skills and reputation as a first rate lens-man.
In the early part of the last decade Butch met a group of musicians who were based in Omaha but had also found their way to New York, including Conor Oberst from Bright Eyes and Tim Kasher from Cursive. His first-hand exposure to these individuals enabled him to photograph them in settings no other photographer has had the ability to achieve. The photos capture a variety of themes, from the sweat and tears of a visceral live performance, to the youth and vitality of the subject when he or she is at their most unguarded, in the dressing room before or after a show, out on the street, or simply sitting on a sofa, playing a guitar.
This is Butch Hogan’s first show based on his music-themed photographs, and the first time any of these pictures have been made available to the public. His work allows both fans of the subject matter and fans of the medium of photography a look into life of a musician in America in the new century.
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