The Artist Upending Photography’s Brutal Racial Legacy Deana Lawson’s regal, loving, unburdened photographs imagine a world in which Black people are free from the distortions of history. Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/05/magazine/deana-lawson.html Deana Lawson’s regal, loving, unburdened photographs imagine a world in which Black people are free from the distortions of history.
The Artist Upending Photography’s Brutal Racial Legacy Deana Lawson’s regal, loving, unburdened photographs imagine a world in which Black people are free from the distortions of history. Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/05/magazine/deana-lawson.html A few months ago, the photographer Deana Lawson and her family were driving to an art opening in the Inglewood neighborhood of Los Angeles when Lawson…
8 Photobooks by Contemporary Women Photographers From Justine Kurland’s imagined runaways to Deana Lawson’s dramatic portraiture, here are essential titles by today’s leading artists. via Aperture: https://aperture.org/editorial/8-photobooks-by-contemporary-women-photographers/ From Justine Kurland’s imagined runaways to Deana Lawson’s dramatic portraiture, here are essential titles by today’s leading artists.
Deana Lawson’s mythical portraits of the black experience Deana Lawson’s photographs embody the realm of myth, a space where the divine and mortal realms merge. They centre around the subjects of family, spirituality, sexuality, and intimacy within the black experience, in the US, the Caribbean, and Africa. She via Huck Magazine: https://www.huckmag.com/art-and-culture/photography-2/deanaa-lawsons-mythical-portraits-of-blackness/ The New York photographer’s…
