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Deana Lawson

Title
  1. Deana Lawson / essay by Zadie Smith ; interview by Arthur Jafa.
Published by
  1. New York, NY : Aperture, 2018.
  2. ©2018
Author
  1. Lawson, Deana, 1979-

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Additional authors
  1. Smith, Zadie
  2. Jafa, Arthur
  3. Embser, Brendan
Description
  1. 101 pages : color illustrations; 36 cm
Summary
  1. One of the most intriguing photographers of her generation, Deana Lawson's subject is black expressive culture and her canvas is the African Diaspora. Over the last ten years, she has created a striking visual language to describe black identities, through figurative portraiture and social documentary accounts of ceremonies and rituals. Lawson works with large-format cameras and models she meets in the United States and on travels in the Caribbean and Africa to construct arresting, highly structured, and deliberately theatrical scenes animated by an exquisite range of color and attention to surprising details: bedding and furniture in domestic interiors or lush plants in Edenic gardens. The body-often nude-is central. Throughout her work, Lawson seeks to portray the personal and the powerful in black life. 'Deana Lawson: An Aperture Monograph' features forty-five beautifully reproduced photographs and an extensive interview with the filmmaker Arthur Jafa.
Alternative title
  1. Deana Lawson : an Aperture monograph
Subject
  1. Black people > Portraits
  2. Portraits
  3. Photographs
  4. African Americans > Portraits
  5. Photography, Artistic
  6. Lawson, Deana, 1979-
  7. Black author
  8. Africans > Portraits
  9. Portrait photography
Genre/Form
  1. Photographs.
  2. Portraits.
Contents
  1. Through the portal : locating the magnificent / Zadie Smith -- Plates -- The direct gaze : Deana Lawson in conversation with Arthur Jafa.
Call number
  1. JQG 21-220
Note
  1. "An Aperture monograph"--Page facing title page.
Author
  1. Lawson, Deana, 1979- artist.
Title
  1. Deana Lawson / essay by Zadie Smith ; interview by Arthur Jafa.
Publisher
  1. New York, NY : Aperture, 2018.
Copyright date
  1. ©2018
Edition
  1. First edition.
Type of content
  1. still image
  2. text
Type of medium
  1. unmediated
Type of carrier
  1. volume
Local subject
  1. Black author.
Added author
  1. Container of (work): Lawson, Deana, 1979- Photographs. Selections.
  2. Smith, Zadie, author of introductory essay.
  3. Jafa, Arthur, interviewer.
  4. Embser, Brendan, editor.
LCCN
  1. 2018939053
ISBN
  1. 9781597114226 (hardcover)
  2. 1597114227 (hardcover)
Research call number
  1. JQG 21-220
  2. Sc+ G 18-65
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