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Bio and Description<\/h2>\n\n\n
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Tommy Brown and Friend<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

Tommy Brown graduated from college and informed his parents he was going to become a photographer; a ludicrous idea as he had never made a noteworthy picture. He saved money working in his dad’s machine shop and took off on a 5 month trip to Europe. This trip would determine the path of my life. It was do or die as he planned to make the pictures that would get him into a graduate art program (ridiculous considering he had not gone to art school as an undergrad). The urgency of this proposition is palpable in the images (some are included in his talk and below). And yes, he got into the MFA program at Yale, which was his long-shot at best.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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For years, he didn\u2019t have a darkroom but he photographed obsessively. He\u2019d develop his film at night, hold the negatives up to see if anything looked good, sleeve and store. Four decades later, he’s printing those images for the first time.<\/p>\n\n\n

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After graduating from Colgate, he received his MFA in photography from the Yale School of Art.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Tune in for his zoom he\u2019ll explain what he’s come to understand about why and how he made these photographs.<\/p>\n\n\n

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All photos taken by Tommy Brown<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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COLLECTIONS:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

His photographs are in numerous private and public collections including:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Munson Museum, Utica, NY<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Beinecke Rare Books and Manuscripts Collection Yale University<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Yale University Art Gallery<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Colby College Museum of Art<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Parrish Art Museum<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Addison Gallery of American Art<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lightwork Collection Syracuse University<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Museum of the City of New York<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Farnsworth Museum<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tang Museum, Skidmore College<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Colgate University, Picker Art Gallery<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He can be contacted at: www.tommybrown.com<\/a> and via Instagram @tommybrownpictures.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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