Fons Iannelli at Steven Kasher Gallery

After serving in the Naval Aviation Photographic Unit during WWII, Fons Iannelli returned to the States to establish a successful career photographing for McCall’s, Life, Fortune and other magazines. Alongside striking images of naval life, and later photos of efficient housewives shot for commercial purposes, Iannelli’s scenes from his 1946 Kentucky Coal Miner series, now on view at Chelsea’s Steven Kasher Gallery reveal the difficult circumstances of family life in the mining community. (On view through August 11th).

Fons Iannelli, Boy Smoking Cigarette (from the Kentucky Coal Miner series), Harlan County, KY, vintage gelatin silver print, printed ca. 1946, 10 ½ h x 10 ¼ w, 1946.