Jim Krantz
Jim Krantz: Artist Profile (excerpt)
By Tiffany Meyers, January/February 2009 Issue
A Chicago photographer captures artful angles and suspended light in his work.
The day you realize you’re ruinously bad at one thing can also be the day you chuck your practical concerns, finally, and pursue what you were born to do.
And Jim Krantz–just out of Denver University with a design degree and acute case of photography fever–was born to do almost anything other than make stats in the small copy room of Omaha ad agency Dudycha & Associates.
“It was very dark,” says Krantz, who carries an aura of goodwill with him everywhere, and probably even into that copy room. “I was like a mole.”
But one morning in 1979, Krantz walked into the office to see that his colleagues had wallpapered his cubicle, floor to ceiling, with the 300 stats he had made the previous night. It was done partly in fun. But “partly” is the operative word.
Krantz didn’t need time to think it over. Renting a windowless space next to an aromatic greasy spoon, he got to work.
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The complete article, which appears in Communication Arts’ January/February 2009 Issue, is available to subscribers only. For more information, please visit the magazine’s website.
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