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Lyle Ashton Harris

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


"I'm interested in exploring the body as a site of both pain and pleasure in all of its ambivalence. I'm engaged in a democratization of the subject matter—equivalence, if you will—whether it's photographing Agnes Gund's granddaughter Sadie or Mystery, who dances for a dollar to make his living."
Lyle Ashton Harris, in conversation with Chuck Close, excerpted from Excessive Exposure: The Complete Chocolate Portraits.

 

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Lyle Ashton Harris: Our first and last love

GREGORY R. MILLER & CO./QUEENS MUSEUM OF ART/ROSE ART MUSEUM
Foreword by Gannit Ankori, Sally Tallant. Text by Nana Adusei-Poku, Roderick A. Ferguson, Ariel Goldberg. Conversation with Lyle Ashton Harris, Lauren Haynes, Caitlin Julia Rubin.

Both personal and universal, Harris’ multimedia works weave together legacies of family dynamics, racial discrimination and queer histories

Clth, 10 x 11.5 in. / 168 pgs / 100 color. | 6/25/2024 | Awaiting stock
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Lyle Ashton Harris: Excessive Exposure

GREGORY R. MILLER & CO.
Text by Okwui Enwezor. Foreword by Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Interview with Chuck Close.

Hbk, 10 x 11.75 in. / 344 pgs / 350 color / 10 bw. | 10/31/2010 | In stock
$75.00


Lyle Ashton Harris: Blow Up

GREGORY R. MILLER & CO.
Introduction by Susan Krane. Text by Cassandra Coblentz, Kwame Anthony Appiah, Sarah Elizabeth Lewis. Interview by Senam Okudzeto.

Paperback, 6.5 x 8.5 in. / 192 pgs / 50 color / 25 bw. | 6/1/2008 | In stock
$50.00


  

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Lyle Ashton Harris

GREGORY R. MILLER & CO.
Essay by Anna Deavere Smith.

Paperback, 8.75 x 10.5 in. / 56 pgs / 19 color. | 8/2/2004 | Not available
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Lyle Ashton Harris: Our first and last loveLyle Ashton Harris: Our first and last love

Published by Gregory R. Miller & Co./Queens Museum of Art/Rose Art Museum.
Foreword by Gannit Ankori, Sally Tallant. Text by Nana Adusei-Poku, Roderick A. Ferguson, Ariel Goldberg. Conversation with Lyle Ashton Harris, Lauren Haynes, Caitlin Julia Rubin.

Gathering photographs and installations from both his celebrated and lesser-known series, Our First and Last Love charts new connections across the artistic practice of New York–based artist Lyle Ashton Harris (born 1965). Inspired by his adolescence divided between New York City and Dar es Salaam, Harris explores the complexities of African and African American collective identity while forging his own personal narrative as a queer Black man. The retrospective exhibition chronicles Harris’ approach to representation and self-portraiture while tracing central themes and formal techniques in his work over the last 35 years. Central to this collection are Harris’ most recently completed pieces. Titled Shadow Works, these multimedia assemblages set photographic prints amid Ghanaian funerary textiles, shells, pottery and locks of the artist’s hair. In the exhibition and the corresponding catalog, the pieces function as starting points for thematic groups of Harris’ other works. Juxtaposed with handwritten notes and family photographs, these arrangements underscore Harris’ layered approach to his practice.



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Gregory R. Miller & Co./Queens Museum of Art/Rose Art Museum

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Lyle Ashton Harris: Excessive ExposureLyle Ashton Harris: Excessive Exposure

The Complete Chocolate Portraits

Published by Gregory R. Miller & Co..
Text by Okwui Enwezor. Foreword by Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Interview with Chuck Close.

Excessive Exposure documents all the chocolate-colored portraits that Bronx-born artist Lyle Ashton Harris made with a large-format Polaroid camera over the past ten years. This sequence of approximately 200 paired front and back portraits, for which Harris has become so well known, has now come to a close, making this volume the definitive publication on the series. The portraits' subjects include Harris' family and friends, art-world personalities, noted cultural figures, celebrities and politicians. These images are further distinguished by a strategic blurring of conventional gender roles, sexual identities and racial categories, and by a refined use of light and shade. Okwui Enwezor contributes an essay analyzing Harris' portraits, situating these works in the context of the artist's work of the past 20 years, as well as in the broader history of the genre. The book also includes a conversation between Harris and artist Chuck Close that took place in 1999, when Harris was beginning the series. With a penetrating foreword by Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Excessive Exposure offers a wealth of superb portraiture and is destined to become a touchstone volume among photo-books.

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Lyle Ashton Harris: Blow UpLyle Ashton Harris: Blow Up

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Introduction by Susan Krane. Text by Cassandra Coblentz, Kwame Anthony Appiah, Sarah Elizabeth Lewis. Interview by Senam Okudzeto.

The Washington Post's Jessica Dawson recently wrote of New York-based artist Lyle Ashton Harris, "Two decades into his career, Harris still concerns himself with the game of appearances and perception: how we present ourselves in public, how our bodies--and the meanings they carry--are received by others, how gender and race are constructed... He also reveals a poetic sensibility: a desire, shared by writers and poets, to make visible our complicated inner worlds. He acknowledges the ambivalences we carry." Blow Up, Harris' first retrospective monograph, published on the occasion of his 2008 traveling exhibition, which originated at the Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, features full-color reproductions from throughout his career: His "white face" self-portraits of the late 1980s, his collage-based work of the mid-1990s and his more recent Polaroid self-portraits, large-scale Blow Up collages and Ghana-based photographs. Designed by award-winning COMA, the volume includes several important new essays as well as a revealing conversation between Harris and artist Senam Okudzeto. Published in collaboration with the Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art.

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Paperback, 6.5 x 8.5 in. / 192 pgs / 50 color / 25 bw.

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Catalog: FALL 2008 p. 89   

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Lyle Ashton HarrisLyle Ashton Harris

Published by Gregory R. Miller & Co..
Essay by Anna Deavere Smith.

Known for self-portraits which explore issues of performance, identity, family, gender, masculinity and race, Lyle Ashton Harris here presents a new series featuring himself in a variety of loaded guises: Billie Holiday, Josephine Baker and the “Boxer.” Anna Deavere Smith's essay powerfully explores her relationship to the photographs and the artist.

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