Research Catalog

Deana Lawson

Title
  1. Deana Lawson / edited by Peter Eleey and Eva Respini ; with contributions by Kimberly Juanita Brown, Tina M. Campt, Peter Eleey, Alexander Nemerov, Eva Respini, and Greg Tate, and a conversation between Deana Lawson and Deborah Willis.
Published by
  1. Boston : Institute of Contemporary Art ; Long Island City, NY : MoMA PS1 ; [London] : MACK, 2021.
  2. ©2021

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Additional authors
  1. Lawson, Deana, 1979-
  2. Eleey, Peter
  3. Respini, Eva
  4. Willis, Deborah, 1948-
  5. Brown, Kimberly Juanita, 1972-
  6. Campt, Tina, 1964-
  7. Nemerov, Alexander
  8. Tate, Greg
Description
  1. 144 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), portraits; 30 cm
Summary
  1. 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.
Subject
  1. Lawson, Deana, 1979- > Exhibitions
  2. Lawson, Deana, 1979- > Interviews
  3. Portrait photography
  4. Black people > Portraits
  5. African Americans > Portraits
  6. Africans > Portraits
  7. Photography, Artistic
  8. Portraits (Photographie)
  9. Noirs > Portraits
  10. Noirs américains > Portraits
  11. Africains > Portraits
  12. Photographie artistique
  13. art photography
  14. African Americans
  15. Africans
  16. Black people
Genre/Form
  1. Exhibition catalogs.
  2. Interviews.
  3. Portraits.
Call number
  1. TR681.B52
Owning institution
  1. Columbia University Libraries
Note
  1. Catalog to accompany the exhibition held: ICA/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.--Page 144.
  2. "Index of works": page 129.
Bibliography (note)
  1. Includes bibliographical references (pages 132-133).