Deana Lawson /
Lawson, Deana,1979-photographer,interviewee.
Eleey, Peter,editor,contributor.
Respini, Eva,editor,contributor.
Willis, Deborah,1948-interviewer.
Brown, Kimberly Juanita,1972-contributor.
Institute of Contemporary Art (Boston, Mass.),host institution.
P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center,host institution.
High Museum of Art,host institution.
The first scholarly publication on the artist Deana Lawson, surveying fifteen years of her photography, will be published to accompany the first comprehensive museum survey exhibition featuring Lawson's artwork. A singular voice in contemporary photography, Lawson has been investigating and challenging conventional representations of black identities in the African American and African diaspora for over fifteen years. Her work samples numerous photographic languages, including the family album, studio portraiture, staged tableaux, documentary pictures, and found images, creating narratives of family, love, and desire. Lawson's photographs are made in collaboration with her subjects, who are sometimes nude, embracing, and directly confronting the camera, destabilizing the notion of photography as a passively voyeuristic medium. Whether in posed photographs or assembled collages, Lawson's works channel broader ideas about personal and social histories of black life, love, sexuality, family, and spiritual beliefs. This publication will include selections from Lawson's personal family photographs and archives of vernacular images that have profoundly informed her work.
Catalog to accompany the exhibition of the same name held at: Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, Massachusetts, November 4, 2021 - February 27, 2022; MoMA PS1, Long Island City, NY, April 14 - September 5, 2022; High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA, October 7, 2022 - February 19, 2023.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 132-133).
"Index of works": page 129.
Directors' foreword / Kate Fowle and Jill Medvedow -- The intimacy of strangers / Tina M. Campt -- Deana Lawson's family album / Eva Respini -- The duplicating vision of Deana Lawson / Kimberly Juanita Brown -- Deana Lawson's gods / Alexander Nemerov -- Of Diogenes and the brothers the brothers the sisters the jungle the sister Deana the jungle / Greg Tate -- Heavy curtains / Peter Eleey -- Conversation / Deana Lawson and Deborah Willis -- Index of works -- Selected exhibition history / compiled by Anni Pullagura and Ellen Tani, with Sydney King -- Selected bibliography / compiled by Anni Pullagura and Ellen Tani, with Sydney King.
The first scholarly publication on the artist Deana Lawson, surveying fifteen years of her photography, will be published to accompany the first comprehensive museum survey exhibition featuring Lawson's artwork. A singular voice in contemporary photography, Lawson has been investigating and challenging conventional representations of black identities in the African American and African diaspora for over fifteen years. Her work samples numerous photographic languages, including the family album, studio portraiture, staged tableaux, documentary pictures, and found images, creating narratives of family, love, and desire. Lawson's photographs are made in collaboration with her subjects, who are sometimes nude, embracing, and directly confronting the camera, destabilizing the notion of photography as a passively voyeuristic medium. Whether in posed photographs or assembled collages, Lawson's works channel broader ideas about personal and social histories of black life, love, sexuality, family, and spiritual beliefs. This publication will include selections from Lawson's personal family photographs and archives of vernacular images that have profoundly informed her work.
Lawson, Deana, 1979-
Lawson, Deana, 1979-
Black people
Portrait photography
African Americans
Africans
Photography, Artistic
Portrait photography.
Black people
African Americans
Photography, Artistic.
African Americans.
Africans.
Black people.
Photography, Artistic.
Portrait photography.