Tag: LaToya Ruby Frazier
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LaToya Ruby Frazier, American Witness – The New York Times
LaToya Ruby Frazier, American Witness A marriage of art and activism, the artist’s searing photographs reveal the human toll of economic injustice. Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/01/t-magazine/latoya-ruby-frazier-photography.html This fall, Frazier will publish “Flint Is Family in Three Acts,” a record of her five-year collaboration with people affected by the ongoing contaminated-water crisis in Flint, Mich. “The Last Cruze,”…
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11 Photographers on How To Finish a Body of Work – Aperture Foundation NY
11 Photographers on How To Finish a Body of Work When should you bring a photographic project to an end? LaToya Ruby Frazier, Justine Kurland, Alec Soth, and more reflect on how to know when a series of work is complete. via Aperture Foundation NY: https://aperture.org/blog/11-photographers-on-how-to-finish-a-body-of-work/ Over the course of her career, curator and lecturer…
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The Living Artist – The New York Times
The Living Artist In spaces intimate and public, LaToya Ruby Frazier reveals ongoing life in the steelworking ‘‘ghost town’’ of Braddock, Pa. Link: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/14/magazine/the-living-artist.html?partner=rss&emc=rss&_r=0 Until LaToya Ruby Frazier got hold of a disposable camera in high school, her great passion was drawing and water color. In the shadow of the Edgar Thomson Steelworks, Frazier began…
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Photographer LaToya Ruby Frazier Wins MacArthur ‘Genius Grant’ of $625,000 | TIME
Photographer LaToya Ruby Frazier Wins MacArthur Genius Grant “It’s validation to my work being a testimony and a fight for social justice.” via Time: http://time.com/4054550/photographer-latoya-ruby-frazier-wins-macarthur-genius-grant-of-625000/ “It’s validation to my work being a testimony and a fight for social justice and cultural change.”
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LaToya Ruby Frazier Awarded United States Artists Fellowship
LaToya Ruby Frazier Awarded United States Artists Fellowship | PDNPulse 2012 PDN’s 30 selection LaToya Ruby Frazier is among the 34 people named United States Artists fellows for 2014. The unrestricted award is worth $50,000. via PDNPulse: http://pdnpulse.pdnonline.com/2014/10/latoya-ruby-frazier-awarded-united-states-artists-fellowship.html “If she [Branham] had bothered to discuss it with me, she would have known,” du Cille said.…
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LaToya Ruby Frazier’s Notion of Family – NYTimes.com
LaToya Ruby Frazier’s Notion of Family LaToya Ruby Frazier was perusing a recently published photo book about her hometown, Braddock, Pa., when she realized something was missing: any trace of the African-American residents who had contributed much to the town and who were now its majority population.
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TIME Special Preview: A Guide to the Best Fall Photo Books – LightBox
LightBox | Time Read the latest stories about LightBox on Time via Time: http://lightbox.time.com/2014/09/08/fall-photo-book-guide/#1 LightBox presents a special preview of the season’s best photography books, featuring new titles from legendary photographers Stephen Shore and Bruce Davidson, as well as inspired work by contemporary photographers Michael Light, Julie Blackmon and LaToya Ruby Frazier.
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LOOK3 2011: A Defining Moment for LaToya Ruby Frazier
LOOK3 2011: A Defining Moment for LaToya Ruby Frazier | PDNPulse At this year’s LOOK3 Festival of the Photograph in Charlottesville, VA, artist LaToya Ruby Frazier made her intentions as an artist and activist clear in a powerful presentation of her work that combined diaristic snippets about her relationships with her via PDNPulse: http://pdnpulse.com/2011/06/look3-2011-a-defining-moment-for-latoya-ruby-frazier.html At…