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Thatcher Keats

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Thatcher Keats is a self-taught photographer whose work includes portraits of families, children and people within American subcultures. His photographs have appeared in VICE, Vanity Fair and Italian Vogue, and have been exhibited at venues including the Bronx Museum and ClampArt.

His book Confidence Games, published by Charta, moves between informal encounters and more deliberately constructed portraits, with texts by Rick Moody and Tim Foljahn. Identifying Marks, published in 2012, gathers photographs of physical features used in the identification of unnamed dead people.

Reviewed 2026-09-06

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