25 Photobooks That Define America
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Danny Lyon, Justine Kurland, Louis Carlos Bernal
LaToya’s Notion of Family (2014) has been chosen alongside of other books featuring Dawoud Bey, Walker Evans, Robert Frank, Lee Friedlander, and Carrie Mae Weems, among others.
LaToya Ruby Frazier: The Notion of Family
LaToya Ruby Frazier’s award-winning first photobook, The Notion of Family, offers an incisive exploration of the legacies of racism and economic decline in America’s small towns, as embodied by her hometown of Braddock, Pennsylvania. Frazier examines the effects of that decline on the community, her own family, and the narratives of the region. Setting the story across three generations—her grandma Ruby, her mother, and herself—Frazier reinforces the idea of art and image-making as a transformative act, a means of resetting traditional power dynamics and narratives—both those of her family and of the community at large.
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