THE UNCRITIC REVIEW
Exhibit at the Brooklyn Museum entitled “LaToya Ruby Frazier: A Haunted Capital” —
April 21 2013
James Krivo, WBAI
There is an exhibit at the Brooklyn Museum entitled “LaToya Ruby Frazier: A Haunted Capital”.The exhibit will be on view until August 11 , and on June 27 at 7 PM there will be a conversation with the photographer as she recites from her written work and is joined by several special guests.
LaToya Ruby Frazier on WBAI
“Migrant Mother” by Dorothea Lange
American Icons: Migrant Mother
Studio 360 Radio Series
Charlie Herman
April 19, 2013
“Migrant Mother” was one of thousands of pictures Dorothea Lange took on assignment for the federal government, documenting the poverty of the Dust Bowl. Before it had that iconic title, the 1936 photo was captioned “Destitute peapickers in California.” But this was the one that stuck, coming to symbolize all those suffering in the Great Depression.
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American Icons: Migrant Mother
LaToya Ruby Frazier (American, b. 1982). Self Portrait (March 10 am), 2009. Brooklyn Museum, Emily Winthrop Miles Fund, 2011.63.4. ©LaToya Ruby Frazier. Photo by LaToya Ruby Frazier.
Kirsten O’Regan: These Dark Histories
Guernica, a magazine of art & politics
April 17, 2013
LaToya Ruby Frazier does not particularly love journalists, despite the fact that her photographs perform an almost journalistic function. Over the past decade, Frazier has recorded the parallel decline of her family’s health and the unraveling social fabric of her de-industrialized hometown—enshrining the lives of those denied easy access to education, clean air, and healthcare in pristine silver gelatin prints. But telling one’s own story is very different from having it told by others, and Frazier, more than most, has a heightened sense of the importance of context.
Review: LaToya Ruby Frazier’s Still Hauntings
Isaiah Matthew Wooden
Huffington Post
April 1, 2013
In 2008, photographer and media artist LaToya Ruby Frazier learned that her mother and Grandma Ruby, like many of the elder women in her hometown of Braddock, PA, had cancer. The information prompted Frazier and her mother, with whom she frequently collaborates, to begin experimenting with new approaches to chronicling the family’s illnesses (Frazier lives with lupus). These mother-daughter experiments produced Shadow (2008), one of the approximately 40 photographic works featured in the artist’s first New York solo exhibition, LaToya Ruby Frazier: A Haunted Capital, which is on view at Brooklyn Museum through August 2013.
LaToya Ruby Frazier Photographs:
‘A Haunted Capital’ Captures Family Life In A Forgotten Industrial Town
Huffington Post
Huffpost Arts & Culture
March 24, 2013
LaToya Ruby Frazier has fierce ties to her roots. The artist grew up in Braddock, Pennsylvania — the site of one of America’s first steel mills.
In a new show at the Brooklyn Museum, “A Haunted Capital,” Frazier’s photographs of Braddock display a town left in the dust after the advent of the digital age. The black-and-white images, which were actually taken within the last 10 years, look as if they are decades old. Yet the striking photographs breathe life back into the abandoned town, bringing a spotlight to the real faces and homes of the contemporary town.
Fighting to save a family in a dying steel town
Raymond McCrea Jones
CNN Photos
March 22, 2013
LaToya Ruby Frazier describes her work as “blurring the line between self-portraiture and social documentary.”
Her method of collaborating with the people she photographs, often her family, as well as voluntarily becoming the subject herself, is readily apparent in her latest exhibit, “A haunted capital.”
At the heart of Frazier’s work is a deep interest in the complex relationship between mother and daughter, she says, which is represented through interactions between herself, her mother and her grandmother.
