Deana Lawson: An Aperture Monograph

Zadie Smith author Deana Lawson illustrator

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Aperture

Published:6th Sep '18

£70.00

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Deana Lawson: An Aperture Monograph cover



Winner of the 2020 Hugo Boss Prize

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.

Outside a Deana Lawson portrait you might be working three jobs, just keeping your head above water, struggling. But inside her frame you are beautiful, imperious, unbroken, unfallen.” — Zadie Smith

  • Winner of Rema Hort Mann Foundation Grant 2010 (United States)
  • Winner of John Gutmann Photography Fellowship 2010 (United States)
  • Winner of Aaron Siskind Fellowship Grant 2009 (United States)
  • Winner of Guggenheim Fellowship 2013 (United States)
  • Winner of Art Matters Grant 2012 (United States)

ISBN: 9781597114226

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 1380g

104 pages