Tag: Deana Lawson

The Artist Upending Photography’s Brutal Racial Legacy

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.

November 30, 2021
The Artist Upending Photography’s Brutal Racial Legacy – The New York Times

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 spotted a garage sale out of the corner of her eye. She wanted to pull over, but her 19-year-old son was tired, and he balked. The family passed the sale again on their way back home, and this time, Lawson insisted. When she met an elderly woman tending to the sale, she knew immediately that she wanted to photograph her.

May 5, 2021
8 Photobooks by Contemporary Women Photographers

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.

March 4, 2021
Deana Lawson’s mythical portraits of the black experience

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 striking, large-scale images offer an intimate look at black life around the world.

October 10, 2018