Deana Lawson
Boston: Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston, MoMA PS1, and MACK, 2021. 1st Edition. Quarto, publisher's textured auburn cloth, spine stamped in fuschia, photo-illustrated label mounted to upper board, black endpapers.
First edition monograph on award-winning photographer Deana Lawson, published in conjunction with a major traveling retrospective of her work starting at the ICA in Boston and subsequently held at MoMA PS1 and Atlanta’s High Museum of Art in 2021. Acclaimed for her large-scale photographic works, Lawson documents and challenges stereotypical representations of Blackness, engages with the notion of collective memory, and examines personal, political, and historical aspects of Black life, love, and intimacy. The first scholarly study devoted to Lawson, this survey covers fifteen years of her output, including her family photo archive, studio portraiture, and assembled collages alongside essays by the show’s curators Eva Respini and Peter Eleey, scholars Kimberly Juanita Brown, Tina M. Campt, Alexander Nemerov, writer and musician Greg Tate, and a conversation between Lawson and fellow artist and photographer Deborah Willis. Illustrated with color plates. No dust jacket, as issued. Fine. Item #11017
$125.00