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Matinee: Ed Panar's 'Walking Home' Share This on LinkedIn   Tweet This   Forward This

28 January 2023

Saturday matinees long ago let us escape from the ordinary world to the island of the Swiss Family Robinson or the mutinous decks of the Bounty. Why not, we thought, escape the usual fare here with Saturday matinees of our favorite photography films?

So we're pleased to present the 485th in our series of Saturday matinees today: Ed Panar's 'Walking Home'.

Five years ago Pier 24 produced this7:45 monologue by photographer Ed Panar about his show Walking Home. Not only does Panar discuss his approach to the art but the piece generously displays many of his images and the images that have inspired him.

The Pilar Foundation announced yesterday it will close Pier 24 when its lease runs out in 2025.

Panar became interested in photography in high school when he began photographing his everyday surroundings, friends and acquaintances. That formative experience animates Walking Home, which collects his images of his hometown Johnstown, Pa., taken over the years.

His repeated shots of the same locations are, themselves, a meditation on the contrast between reality and photography. It probably helps that he doesn't drive so his experience of the landscape is more immediate and languishing that a 65 mph trip over asphalt.

He titles his works with the date first because the element of time is primary to these repetitive images. That extends not just to shooting but to the editing process itself, which provides another experience at a different time with his subject.

He enjoys turning these images into photo books which, themselves, have a timeline. He has published In the Vicinity (2018), Animals That Saw Me: Volume One and Volume Two (2011 and 2016), Salad Days (2012), Same Difference (2010), and Golden Palms (2007).

His work has been exhibited at Pier 24 Photography, San Francisco and Kasseler Kunstverein in Kassel, Germany, among others and is included in the collections of San Francisco MoMA, The Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, Pilara Foundation and the Museum of Modern Art Library in New York.


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