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*Deana Lawson*, the first scholarly publication on the artist Deana Lawson, surveys fifteen years of her photography and is published to accompany the first comprehensive museum exhibition of Lawson’s work. A distinctive voice in contemporary photography, Deana Lawson has been exploring and challenging conventional representations of Black identities within the African American and African diaspora for over fifteen years. Her work draws on numerous photographic languages, including the family album, the studio portrait, staged tableaux, documentary images, and found images, thereby creating narratives about family, love, and desire. Lawson’s photographs are created in collaboration with her subjects, who are sometimes nude, kissing, and looking directly into the camera, thereby subverting the notion of photography as a medium of passive voyeurism. Whether staged 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 of Lawson’s personal family photographs and archives of vernacular images that have profoundly influenced his work.
Published by Mack Books, 2021
24 cm 29 cm, 144 pages
ISBN
*Deana Lawson*, the first scholarly publication on the artist Deana Lawson, surveys fifteen years of her photography and is published to accompany the first comprehensive museum exhibition of Lawson’s work. A distinctive voice in contemporary photography, Deana Lawson has been exploring and challenging conventional representations of Black identities within the African American and African diaspora for over fifteen years. Her work draws on numerous photographic languages, including the family album, the studio portrait, staged tableaux, documentary images, and found images, thereby creating narratives about family, love, and desire. Lawson’s photographs are created in collaboration with her subjects, who are sometimes nude, kissing, and looking directly into the camera, thereby subverting the notion of photography as a medium of passive voyeurism. Whether staged 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 of Lawson’s personal family photographs and archives of vernacular images that have profoundly influenced his work.
Published by Mack Books, 2021
24 cm 29 cm, 144 pages
ISBN
