Artist Paul Shambroom uses found and original photographs to explore American power and culture. Since 2012 he has incorporated sourced images and collaborative theater into his practice. His documentary subjects include nuclear weapons and small-town council meetings. He has published three monographs:, Meetings, Face to Face with the Bomb…, and Paul Shambroom: Picturing Power. He is a 2003 Guggenheim Fellow and a Creative Capital grantee. His work has been in the Whitney Biennial and is collected by the Whitney, MoMA, SFMOMA, and the Art Institute of Chicago. Shambroom is an Associate Professor in Art, University of Minnesota.
Without Interruption: Frederick Wiseman in Conversation with Paul Shambroom
As in many of his earlier works, Frederick Wiseman takes a long, slow, immersive look—without commentary, without interrupting—in his newest documentary, a portrait of life in a rural Indiana town. In anticipation of the Walker screening of Wiseman’s Monrovia, Indiana, we turned to another master of the slow look, Paul Shambroom, a photographer who has offered nuanced views of some deceptively banal-seeming topics, from the US Strategic Petroleum Reserve to municipal meetings in small-town America. Here, their recent conversation.
