LaToya Ruby Frazier

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LaToya Ruby Frazier

Pbk, 9 x 13 in. / 176 pgs / 96 color. | 10/22/2019 | Out of stock
$35.00

LaToya Ruby Frazier: And from the Coaltips a Tree Will Rise

Pbk, 9.75 x 11 in. / 160 pgs / 6 color / 60 bw. | 11/21/2017 | Out of stock
$45.00

LaToya Ruby Frazier: The Notion of Family

Clth, 9.5 x 10.75 in. / 156 pgs / 32 color / 100 duotone. | 11/30/2014 | Not Available
$60.00

LaToya Ruby Frazier

Published by Mousse Publishing.
Edited with text by Christophe Gallois. Text by LaToya Ruby Frazier, Claire Tenu, Elvan Zabunyan.

Frazier's (born 1982) portraits reflect both a political engagement with and a personal investment in her subject matter. This book presents her seminal series The Notion of a Family, in which she documents three generations of her own family in the suburbs of Pittsburgh, alongside two more recent projects: On the Making of Steel Genesis: Sandra Gould Ford (2017), made in close collaboration with artist and steelworker Sandra Gould Ford; and Et des terrils un arbre s'élèvera (2016–17), made with the people of Mons in Borinage, Belgium, once home to a coalmine.

Following a long tradition of photography as a tool for political activism, Frazier's intimate photographs provide insight into the daily lives of those most affected by the industries' decline.

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Mousse Publishing

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Paperback, 9 x 13 in. / 176 pgs / 96 color.

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Pub Date 10/22/2019
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Catalog: SPRING 2020

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LaToya Ruby Frazier: And from the Coaltips a Tree Will Rise

Published by MAC'S Grand Hornu.
Text by Denis Gielen, Joanna Leroy, Jean-Marc Prévost.

Photographer LaToya Ruby Frazier (born 1982) grew up in Braddock, PA, a borough in the American Rust Belt ravaged by the steel-industry crisis that hit the US during the Reagan administration. In this former bastion of the steel industry, the artist was raised in her Afro-American family, whose story she told in The Notion of Family. Her 2016 residency at Grand-Hornu allowed her to pursue her work on postindustrial society in Belgium, turning her camera to the Borinage, a mining region whose intense activity in the 19th century was diminished by a series of crises that led to the closure of the last mine in 1976. Testimonies gathered by Frazier from the former miners and their families have resulted in And from the Coaltips a Tree Will Rise, an extensive collection of portraits, landscapes and still lifes.

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MAC'S Grand Hornu

BOOK FORMAT
Paperback, 9.75 x 11 in. / 160 pgs / 6 color / 60 bw.

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Pub Date 11/21/2017
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Catalog: SPRING 2018 p. 144

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ISBN 9782930368702 TRADE
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LaToya Ruby Frazier: The Notion of Family

Published by Aperture.
Interview by Dawoud Bey. Text by Laura Wexler, Dennis C. Dickerson.

In this, her first book, LaToya Ruby Frazier (born 1982) offers an incisive exploration of the legacy of racism and economic decline in America's small towns, as embodied by Braddock, Pennsylvania, Frazier's hometown. 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 that are dominated by stories of Andrew Carnegie and Pittsburgh's industrial past, but largely ignore those of black families and the working classes. Frazier has set her story of three generations--her Grandma Ruby, her mother and herself--against larger questions of civic belonging and responsibility. The work also documents 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. With The Notion of Family, Frazier knowingly acknowledges and expands upon the traditions of classic black-and-white documentary photography, enlisting the participation of her family, and her mother in particular. As Frazier says, her mother is "co-author, artist, photographer and subject. Our relationship primarily exists through a process of making images together. I see beauty in all her imperfections and abuse." Frazier's work reinforces the idea of image-making as a transformative act, a means of resetting traditional power dynamics and narratives, both those of her family and those of the community at large. Frazier is a 2014 Guggenheim fellow.

PUBLISHER
Aperture

BOOK FORMAT
Clth, 9.5 x 10.75 in. / 156 pgs / 32 color / 100 duotone.

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Pub Date 11/30/2014
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LaToya Ruby Frazier

Museum Exhibition Catalogues, Monographs, Artist's Projects, Curatorial Writings and Essays

LaToya Ruby Frazier

Published by Mousse Publishing.Edited with text by Christophe Gallois. Text by LaToya Ruby Frazier, Claire Tenu, Elvan Zabunyan.

PUBLISHER Mousse Publishing

LaToya Ruby Frazier: And from the Coaltips a Tree Will Rise

Published by MAC'S Grand Hornu.Text by Denis Gielen, Joanna Leroy, Jean-Marc Prévost.

PUBLISHER MAC'S Grand Hornu

LaToya Ruby Frazier: The Notion of Family

Published by Aperture.Interview by Dawoud Bey. Text by Laura Wexler, Dennis C. Dickerson.

PUBLISHER Aperture

the art world's source for books on art & culture

Published by Mousse Publishing.
Edited with text by Christophe Gallois. Text by LaToya Ruby Frazier, Claire Tenu, Elvan Zabunyan.

PUBLISHER
Mousse Publishing

Published by MAC'S Grand Hornu.
Text by Denis Gielen, Joanna Leroy, Jean-Marc Prévost.

PUBLISHER
MAC'S Grand Hornu

Published by Aperture.
Interview by Dawoud Bey. Text by Laura Wexler, Dennis C. Dickerson.

PUBLISHER
Aperture