DEANA LAWSON - Deana Lawson, Peter Eleey, Eva Respin
Deana Lawson, the first scholarly publication on the artist Deana Lawson, reviews fifteen years of her photography, is published to accompany the first comprehensive museum exhibition featuring Lawson's work. A singular voice in contemporary photography, Deana Lawson has been investigating and challenging conventional representations of black identities in the African-American and African diaspora for over fifteen years. Her work draws on many photographic languages, including the family album, studio portraiture, staged tableaux, documentary images and found images, creating narratives about family, love and desire. Lawson's photographs are made in collaboration with his subjects, who are sometimes naked, embracing and facing the camera directly, destabilizing the notion of photography as a means of passive voyeurism. Whether posed photographs or assembled collages, Lawson's works channel broader ideas about the personal and social history of black life, love, sexuality, family and spiritual beliefs. This publication will include selections from Lawson's personal family photographs and an archive of vernacular images that have profoundly influenced his work.
Published by Mack Books, 2021
24 cm x 29 cm, 144 pages
ISBN 9781912339983
Deana Lawson, the first scholarly publication on the artist Deana Lawson, reviews fifteen years of her photography, is published to accompany the first comprehensive museum exhibition featuring Lawson's work. A singular voice in contemporary photography, Deana Lawson has been investigating and challenging conventional representations of black identities in the African-American and African diaspora for over fifteen years. Her work draws on many photographic languages, including the family album, studio portraiture, staged tableaux, documentary images and found images, creating narratives about family, love and desire. Lawson's photographs are made in collaboration with his subjects, who are sometimes naked, embracing and facing the camera directly, destabilizing the notion of photography as a means of passive voyeurism. Whether posed photographs or assembled collages, Lawson's works channel broader ideas about the personal and social history of black life, love, sexuality, family and spiritual beliefs. This publication will include selections from Lawson's personal family photographs and an archive of vernacular images that have profoundly influenced his work.
Published by Mack Books, 2021
24 cm x 29 cm, 144 pages
ISBN 9781912339983
Deana Lawson, the first scholarly publication on the artist Deana Lawson, reviews fifteen years of her photography, is published to accompany the first comprehensive museum exhibition featuring Lawson's work. A singular voice in contemporary photography, Deana Lawson has been investigating and challenging conventional representations of black identities in the African-American and African diaspora for over fifteen years. Her work draws on many photographic languages, including the family album, studio portraiture, staged tableaux, documentary images and found images, creating narratives about family, love and desire. Lawson's photographs are made in collaboration with his subjects, who are sometimes naked, embracing and facing the camera directly, destabilizing the notion of photography as a means of passive voyeurism. Whether posed photographs or assembled collages, Lawson's works channel broader ideas about the personal and social history of black life, love, sexuality, family and spiritual beliefs. This publication will include selections from Lawson's personal family photographs and an archive of vernacular images that have profoundly influenced his work.
Published by Mack Books, 2021
24 cm x 29 cm, 144 pages
ISBN 9781912339983
