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(LAWSON, DEANA). Lawson, Deana, Zadie Smith & Arthur Jafa. New York: Aperture, 2020. Second Edition. 14 x 12 in., 104 pages. Hardbound. Photography Monograph. New/No Jacket - As Issued.
Deana Lawson is one of the most intriguing 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 in black life. Deana Lawson: An Aperture Monograph features forty beautifully reproduced photographs, an essay by the acclaimed writer Zadie Smith, and an expansive conversation with the filmmaker Arthur Jafa. A brand new, most handsome example of the 2020 Aperture second edition still in the publisher's shrinkwrap. 978-1597114226 Inventory Number: I00201015