Trailer | Who Is Michael Jang?
Preview: Season 26 Episode 19 | 30sVideo has Closed Captions
An elusive photographer uses street art tactics to share his previously unknown work with the world.
After a long career as a commercial and portrait photographer, mischievous San Francisco artist Michael Jang sat for decades on a hidden treasure of pictures taken in his 20s—both candid celebrity shots and a down-to-earth cross-section of Chinese American family life rarely captured so playfully. Then, during the pandemic, Jang set out to share his work with the world, street guerilla-style.
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Trailer | Who Is Michael Jang?
Preview: Season 26 Episode 19 | 30sVideo has Closed Captions
After a long career as a commercial and portrait photographer, mischievous San Francisco artist Michael Jang sat for decades on a hidden treasure of pictures taken in his 20s—both candid celebrity shots and a down-to-earth cross-section of Chinese American family life rarely captured so playfully. Then, during the pandemic, Jang set out to share his work with the world, street guerilla-style.
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Learn Moreabout PBS online sponsorship- Hi there.
My name is Michael Jang.
- Who is Michael Jang?
- Hmm.
- A bit of an enigma.
- Curious, humorous.
- Atypical, creative genius.
[♪♪] - Overlooked by the art world.
- This work was totally unique.
He was everywhere you would have wanted to be.
- I had no idea what I was doing except that I was having fun taking pictures.
[♪♪]
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