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Deana Lawson / essay by Zadie Smith ; interview by Arthur Jafa; editor: Brendan Embser

Author
Lawson, Deana, 1979-
Additional Titles
Title on colophon: Deana Lawson : an Aperture monograph
Published
New York, NY : Aperture, 2018.
Copyright Date
©2018
Edition
First edition.
Physical Description
101 pages : color illustrations ; 36 cm
Additional Creators
Lawson, Deana, 1979- Selections, Smith, Zadie, Jafa, Arthur, and Embser, Brendan

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Contents
Through the portal : locating the magnificent / Zadie Smith -- Plates -- The direct gaze : Deana Lawson in conversation with Arthur Jafa.
Summary
One of the most intriguing photographers of her generation, Deana Lawson's subject is black expressive culture and her canvas is the African Diaspora. Over the last ten years, she has created a striking visual language to describe black identities, through figurative portraiture and social documentary accounts of ceremonies and rituals. Lawson works with large-format cameras and 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, Lawson seeks to portray the personal and the powerful in black life. 'Deana Lawson: An Aperture Monograph' features forty-five beautifully reproduced photographs and an extensive interview with the filmmaker Arthur Jafa.
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ISBN
9781597114226 (hardcover)
1597114227 (hardcover)
Collection
Fine Printing Collection.
Note
"An Aperture monograph"--Page facing title page.
Rare Books copy 1: "First edition" stated (1st printing): SIGNED BUT UNNUMBERED (Artist's Proof?) from special limited edition of 50 signed and numbered copies (and 5 Artist's Proofs) issued by publisher in purple cloth with rose-gold gilded pages, matching slipcase, and CUSTOM C-PRINT of Lawson's iconic portrait, THE GARDEN, 2015, tipped on front cover; IMPERFECT: wanting matching slipcase; to be rehoused in custom case.
Rare Books copy 2: "First edition" stated (3rd trade printing); in publisher's purple cloth with original printed paper belly band wrapped vertically on rear board.
Lawson is a Penn State alumnus.
Source of Acquisition
Rare Books copy 1: Purchased with funds from the Mary Ann O'Brian Malkin Program Endowment for Rare Books and Manuscripts; 2022.
Action Note
Rare Books copies: condition reviewed; 20220915. Requires housing. Potential house companion text in same box?
Rare Books copies: housed; 20220915; box. Phase box.
Endowment Note
Edward J. and Eleanor Black Nichols Library Endowment Fund
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