Performing Social Landscapes

10/16/2015 — 3/13/2016

Debut solo exhibition in France
Carré d’Art – Musée d’art contemporain de Nimes

Exhibition catalog

Cecilia Alemani, Cherise Smith et Natalie Zelt
Carré d’Art-Musée d’art contemporain
2015
12,00 €

Description
Edition bilingue, français / anglais
1 vol. ( 52 p.)
broché, ill. coul.
15 x 27.5 cm
ISBN 9782907650366

“LaToya Ruby Frazier (born 1982) takes as the subject of the photographs her home town of Braddock, Pennsylvania, or rather the people who live there. This is the working-class suburb of Pittsburgh, where there used to be a large steelworks. For a number of years she has been working on those close to her and taking them as witnesses to the economic slump. Her work belongs to a long tradition of committed photographers including Dorothea Lange, Walker Evans and Gordon Parks. She is interested in three generations of women.”

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Courtesy of Carré d’Art-Musée d’art contemporain

Photography At MoMA: 1960 To Now

Edited by Quentin Bajac, Lucy Gallun, Roxana Marcoci, and Sarah Hermanson Meister.
Essays by David Campany, Noam Elcott, Robert Slifkin, and Eva Respini.

ISBN: 9780870709692
2015

The Museum of Modern Art has one of the greatest collections of twentieth-century photography in the world. As one of three volumes dedicated to a new history of photography published by the Museum, this publication comprises a comprehensive catalogue of the collection post-1960s and brings a much-needed new critical perspective on the most prominent artists who have worked with the photographic medium over the last half-century. At a moment when photography is undergoing fast-paced changes and artists are seeking to redefine its boundaries in new and exciting ways, Photography at MoMA serves as an excellent resource for understanding this expanded field.

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Book Released through Aperture Foundation

The Notion Of Family
Photographs by LaToya Ruby Frazier.
Interview by Dawoud Bey.
Essays by Laura Wexler and Dennis C. Dickerson.

In this, her first book, LaToya Ruby Frazier offers an incisive exploration of the legacy of racism and economic decline in America’s small towns, as embodied by her hometown of Braddock, Pennsylvania. The work also considers the impact of that decline on the community and on her family, creating a statement both personal and truly political—an intervention in the histories and narratives of the region. Frazier has compellingly set her story of three generations—her Grandma Ruby, her mother, and herself—against larger questions of civic belonging and responsibility. The work documents her own struggles and interactions with family and the expectations of community, and includes the documentation of the demise of Braddock’s only hospital, reinforcing the idea that the history of a place is frequently written on the body as well as the landscape.

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LaToya Ruby Frazier WITNESS

Contemporary Arts Museum Huston
June 22 – October 13, 2013
Opening Reception: Friday, June 21, 2013

LaToya Ruby Frazier: WITNESS features photographs, videos, digital works, and a recent photolithograph series that speak to these conditions. Frazier documents Braddock’s deterioration with an unflinching eye and a gift for communicating through documentary images that connects her to other socially engaged practitioners like American photographers Walker Evans, Dorothea Lange, and Gordon Parks. Read more…

LaToya Ruby Frazier: WITNESS is accompanied by a bound, illustrated catalogue including an essay by the exhibition’s curator, Dean Daderko, a checklist of works in the exhibition, and biographic and bibliographic citations

ISBN: 9781933619453
July 2013
18 black-and-white reproductions
36 pages

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Whitney Biennial 2012

The 2012 Biennial features works by approximately 50 artists working in a variety of media, including painting, sculpture, photography, film, video, dance, and performance. Elisabeth Sussman (co-organizer of the influential, politically provocative 1993 Whitney Biennial) and Jay Sanders provide an insightful joint essay, and a group of art historians and critics contribute entries on common themes and ideas from the represented artists’ techniques and influences. In addition, a significant portion of the catalogue is devoted to original contributions from each of the participating artists, in a unique effort to provide a more experiential understanding of the exhibition.

For more information on the 2012 Whitney Biennial, please visit: http://whitney.org/Exhibitions/2012Biennial

Product Details
Series: Biennial Exhibition / Whitney Museum of American Art
Paperback: 320 pages
Publisher: The Whitney Museum of American Art (March 27, 2012)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0300180365
ISBN-13: 978-0300180367
Product Dimensions: 9.8 x 1 x 12.6 inches

frieze – issue 148

June 11, 2012