Will Vogt is a photographer with a front-row seat to the American upper class.
Raised on Philadelphia’s Main Line, Will attended boarding school and spent lots of time in the tony enclave of Watch Hill, Rhode Island, where his family summered. His new collection of photography, These Americans, showcases decades of intimate snapshots of his social circle.
Entertainment news site Vulture says the work "depicts the wealthy at leisure with their guard down.” Indeed, Will has captured a very rare, candid, and un-self-conscious picture of the American upper class doing their thing, which—in a few cases—is cocaine. In some others, it’s weed and/or alcohol.
Since the majority of these shots were taken in the 1980s, it is highly appropriate that Jay McInerney (Bright Lights, Big City) composed the introduction. He wrote that Vogt is “documenting the world of the descendants of those whom (F. Scott) Fitzgerald wrote about. And he is clearly a member of this tribe, albeit a self-aware and observant one.”
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