THE NOTION OF FAMILY (First edition)
LaToya Ruby Frazier
THE NOTION OF FAMILY (First edition)
Photographs: LaToya Ruby Frazier
Text: Dawoud Bey, Laura Wexler and Dennis C. Dickerson.
Publisher: Aperture Foundation
158 pages
Year: 2014
Price: 150 €
Comments: Hardcover, 28 x 24,2 cm, b&w photographs. First edition, 2014. In excellent condition. Text in English.
LaToya Frazier’s first monograph, The Notion of Family, documents the decline of Braddock, Pennsylvania—a once-prosperous steel-mill town that employed generations of African American workers—alongside the hardships of Frazier’s family, who grew up there. Issues of class and race underscore the mostly black-and-white photographs in the collection, which is arranged as a kind of family album: intimate, collaboratively produced portraits of Frazier and her mother in mirrors and on beds, are presented with derelict scenes of collapsed buildings, vacant lots, and boarded-up stores.
Twelve years in the making, the work compellingly sets her story of three generations—her Grandma Ruby, her mother, and herself—against larger questions of civic belonging and responsibility. Since beginning the work as a teenager, Frazier has enlisted the participation of her family—and her mother in particular. These images acknowledge and expand upon the traditions of classic black-and-white documentary photography, and are themselves transformative acts, resetting traditional power dynamics and narratives, both those of her family and those of the community at large.
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