COMMUTE: photographs by Anthony Jannelli

May 21, 2023 – June 25, 2023.

“COMMUTE: photographs by Anthony Jannelli” opened in our Upper Gallery on Sunday, May 21 with a reception from 2-5pm. Jannelli joined Museum Director Bob Foster for an online Artist Talk Friday, May 19 at 7pm. It can be viewed below, as well as on Facebook. The exhibit runs until Sunday, June 25. For more info, visit Anthony’s website here.

 

 

 

Born and raised in Summit, New Jersey, Anthony Jannelli has worked as a cinematographer in the motion picture industry for 4 decades. He has worked on feature films, short films, television series and commercials with Martin Scorsese, Jonathan Demme, Robert Benton, Mike Nichols, Jodie Foster, Tim Robbins, Penny Marshall, and many others. Additionally, Anthony has filmed television promos and music videos with The Rolling Stones, Paul McCartney, Michael Jackson, Aretha Franklin, Bruce Springsteen, Neil Young, Talking Heads, and Laurie Anderson. He photographed the pilot and the full first season of Law & Order Special Victims Unit.

His first professional job was as an assistant cameraman for John Lennon and The Plastic Ono Band’s One to One concert at Madison Square Garden in 1972. His first feature as a director of photography, Longtime Companion, won the 1991 Audience Award at the Sundance Film Festival. In 2008 he directed the short film Five Years of Forever, which went on to win an Accolade Award for Excellence in Direction. Currently, Tony is cinematographer on the Untitled Tom Wilson Project, about renowned record producer Tom Wilson, which is being directed by Marshall Crenshaw.

A member of the International Cinematographers Guild and the Directors Guild of America, he has been an instructor at the Sundance Filmmakers Workshop and the Maine Photographic Workshops for Film and Television.

A professor of cinematography at NYU Tisch School of the Arts/Graduate Film Program since 2002, he has served as Head of the Cinematography Department 2005-2023 and as Head of Graduate Studies 2007-2008. He also taught cinematography at NYU’s Tisch Asia (Singapore) in 2009. He has been a Hoboken resident since 2010.

In 2018, Anthony began to shoot one photograph a day during his daily commute from Hoboken to NYU using only his iPhone. He shares: “What at first was an exercise in observation, I soon learned that capturing everyday life could also be a bridge to love, empathy, and sometimes humor.” In 2021, Anthony published a book entitled “COMMUTE,” a collection of street photography taken in and around Hoboken and Greenwich Village. The Hoboken Historical Museum is pleased to exhibit these extraordinary photographs in the Upper Gallery.

The exhibit is supported by a block grant from the State/County Partnership program for the Arts, administered by the Hudson County Division of Cultural and Heritage Affairs.