TCF Ep. 436 - Gerald Cyrus

The Candid Frame: Conversations on Photography

Ibarionex R. Perello

Cameras, Art, Photoshop, Visual Arts, Career, Interviews, Photographers, Arts, Photography, Photo, Digital

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🗓️ 10 September 2018

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

Gerald Cyrus was born in 1957 in Los Angeles, CA and began photographing there in 1984. In 1990 he moved to New York City and obtained a Master of Fine Arts degree from the School of Visual Arts (SVA) in 1992. While at SVA, he also interned at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture under the supervision of Deborah Willis. During his time in New York, Cyrus photographed regularly on the streets of Manhattan, Harlem and Brooklyn, and in 1994, he started frequenting the nightclubs in Harlem and photographed the vibrant music scene in that historic neighborhood for over six years. The resulting body of work, entitled “Stormy Monday”, was published as a book in 2008. In 2000, Cyrus moved to Philadelphia, PA and began photographing in that city as well as the nearby city of Camden, NJ. He has also photographed extensively in Bahia, Brazil where he was a fellow at the Sacatar Foundation and in New Orleans, LA (before and after Hurricane Katrina) where he has family history. Cyrus currently lives in Philadelphia and teaches part-time at Haverford College. He is also a member of the Kamoinge, Inc. photographers’ collective. Resources: Download the free Candid Frame app for your favorite smart device. Click here to download for . Click here to download Support the work we do at The Candid Frame with contributing to our Patreon effort. You can do this by visiting or visiting the website and clicking on the Patreon button. You can also provide a one-time donation via . You can follow Ibarionex on and .

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0:00.0	Help support The Candid Frame in bringing you awesome conversations with great photographers.
0:05.0	You can do this by contributing as little as $2 a month to our Patreon campaign.
0:10.0	That modest donation helps us to bring a quality show to you every week.
0:15.0	Contribute today by visiting patreon.com forward slash the candid frame.
0:26.9	This is your body in X and this is the candid frame.
0:32.7	There are a few subject matters that are new to photography.
0:36.5	To a degree, it's all been done before.
0:40.4	But just because it's been done doesn't mean that a photographer can't find a unique
0:45.3	and personal way of exploring the subject, scenes, or ideas explored in the past by others.
0:53.3	Because each photographer can bring their personal experiences,
0:57.1	their way of seeing to the creative process, that results in photographs that have their own voice
1:03.6	and are not just derivative. Gerald Cyrus has used his camera to document the jazz clubs of both
1:10.7	Los Angeles and New York.
1:13.0	He also turned his lens onto his own family, living both in the Northeast and the South.
1:19.2	He's also taken to the streets and practiced street photography.
1:23.7	Each of these has been explored by other photographers, but that hasn't deterred him from defining
1:29.1	these things for himself. His photographs and jazz clubs go beyond simply photographing
1:36.0	musicians playing their instruments, but explores the relationships between the musicians
1:41.1	themselves and their patrons. In New York City, he observed the differences
1:46.3	between the more formal clubs in Lower Manhattan
1:49.2	and the more intimate settings up in Harlem.
1:53.2	And someone just hit me to it.
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