Inside George Brown’s Bar

In 1971, a young photographer/barkeep made an evocative series of photographs of the patrons of a working-class bar that still have much to say about the human condition—and the gentle art of making portraits.

George Brown's Bar © John Banasiak, courtesy of the Joseph Bellows Gallery
Long before John Banasiak became a professor of photography at the University of South Dakota in Vermillion (where he’s taught for 42 years), he was a factory worker, a night ...

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