Sage sohier

Sage Sohier (Washington, 1954) has been photographing people in their environments for more than 30 years, after receiving her B.A. from Harvard University. She has received fellowships from the No Strings Foundation, the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Massachuse

Perfectible Worlds — Sage Sohier

At the height of AIDS hysteria in the 1980s, when some people still wondered if the disease could be passed to others through day-to-day contact,

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Almost Grown — Sage Sohier

from the series 'America Seen' Framingham, MA, Sage Sohier 1981

In the 1980s, Massachusetts photographer Sage Sohier hit the road. She was 20-something years old, recently graduated from Harvard University, and enamored with the street. She approached strangers, toting around a clunky medium-format camera with a flash in search of serendipity.

Brian Dillon writes about Sage Sohier’s photography book “Animals,” which depicts people with their animals.

From a Polaroid of a young, denim-clad Madonna to an image of two boys riding the NYC subway with a giant boombox, these images perfectly capture this era of rebellious youth.