An Aperture Monograph

New York: Aperture, 2018.
ISBN: 9781683952282
Condition: As New
Hardcover
First Printing
11 x 13 ¾ inches, 104 pages, 40 four-color images

Deana Lawson is one of the most compelling photographers of her generation. Over the last ten years, she has created a visionary language to describe identities through intimate portraiture and striking accounts of ceremonies and rituals. Using medium- and large-format cameras, Lawson works with 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, which invites comparison to the photography of Diane Arbus, Jeff Wall, and Carrie Mae Weems, Lawson seeks to portray the personal and the powerful. Item #18172

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An Aperture Monograph. Zadie Smith Deana Lawson, Arthur Jafa, Essya, Interview.
An Aperture Monograph. Zadie Smith Deana Lawson, Arthur Jafa, Essya, Interview.
An Aperture Monograph. Zadie Smith Deana Lawson, Arthur Jafa, Essya, Interview.