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The work also examines the impact of this decline on the community and on her family, creating a statement that is both personal and deeply political—an intervention in the region’s histories and narratives. Frazier has compellingly juxtaposed her three-generation family history—her grandmother Ruby, her mother, and herself—with broader questions of civic belonging and responsibility. The work documents her own struggles and interactions with family and community expectations, and includes documentation of the disappearance of Braddock’s only hospital, reinforcing the idea that the history of a place is often written on the body as well as on the landscape. With *The Notion of Family*, Frazier consciously acknowledges and expands upon the traditions of classic black-and-white documentary photography by enlisting the participation of her family, and her mother in particular. In creating these collaborative works, Frazier reinforces the idea of art and image-making as a transformative act, a means of redefining traditional power dynamics and narratives, both those of her family and of the community as a whole; text by Dennis C. Dickerson and Laura Wexler, interview by Dawoud Bey.
Aperture, 2016
158 pages
24.5 × 27 cm
ISBN 9781597113816
The work also examines the impact of this decline on the community and on her family, creating a statement that is both personal and deeply political—an intervention in the region’s histories and narratives. Frazier has compellingly juxtaposed her three-generation family history—her grandmother Ruby, her mother, and herself—with broader questions of civic belonging and responsibility. The work documents her own struggles and interactions with family and community expectations, and includes documentation of the disappearance of Braddock’s only hospital, reinforcing the idea that the history of a place is often written on the body as well as on the landscape. With *The Notion of Family*, Frazier consciously acknowledges and expands upon the traditions of classic black-and-white documentary photography by enlisting the participation of her family, and her mother in particular. In creating these collaborative works, Frazier reinforces the idea of art and image-making as a transformative act, a means of redefining traditional power dynamics and narratives, both those of her family and of the community as a whole; text by Dennis C. Dickerson and Laura Wexler, interview by Dawoud Bey.
Aperture, 2016
158 pages
24.5 × 27 cm
ISBN 9781597113816
