MARC BOONE FITZERMAN
Marc Fitzerman was born in Detroit in 1954. Educated at the University of Michigan, he went on to a masters degree and ordination at the Jewish Theological Seminary of America. After five years in Kansas City, he came to his current pulpit in Oklahoma in 1985.
Fitzerman's current photographic work is focused on vernacular photography and the expressive power of anonymous images. Vintage photographs, some of them irreducibly strange and haunting, constitute a democratic counter-narrative to the story of the photographic high priesthood of the twentieth century.
Fitzerman's own picture-making, influenced by Meatyard, Eggleston, Ess, and others, explores the edges of the city, ritual and artifice, and archetypal forms. His educational work relies heavily on photographic images in teaching, interpreting communal experience, and exploring identity.
